{"id":167734,"date":"2024-04-02T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/02\/nungua-wulomo-marriage-saga-ncce-bares-teeth\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:37:14","slug":"nungua-wulomo-marriage-saga-ncce-bares-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/02\/nungua-wulomo-marriage-saga-ncce-bares-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nungua Wulomo Marriage Saga: NCCE Bares Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>THE NATIONAL COMMISSION for Civic Education (NCCE) has emphatically registered its displeasure over an alleged betrothal of a 12-year old girl to the Gborbu Wulomo of the Nungua Traditional Area, Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII, 63.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission, in a release signed by its Chairperson, Kathleen Addy, iterated that it was \u201cappalled\u201d by the development and emphasized that cultural practices that are \u201cillegal\u201d and \u201cunconstitutional\u201d have no place in Ghana\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NCCE wishes to remind the Ga Traditional Council that the Children\u2019s Act, Act 560 of 1998, Section 13, (1&amp;2) provides that \u2018The minimum age of marriage of whatever kind shall be eighteen years\u2019. It is also worth pointing out that the same section of the Children\u2019s Act says that \u2018No person shall force a child (a) to be betrothed; (b) to be the subject of a dowry transaction; or (c) to be married\u2019\u201d, the Commission stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission also noted that while the Nungua Traditional Council contends that this union is voluntary, \u201cit is unclear to the NCCE how a pre-pubescent, pre-teen minor can consent to such an arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission therefore called on the Nungua Traditional Council to note that the same 1992 Constitution, in Article 39 also states that \u201c\u2026\u2026traditional practices which are injurious to the health and well-being of the person are abolished\u201d, and urged the Nungua Traditional Council to \u201creview its traditional practices to bring them in line with the laws and 1992 Constitution of Ghana, and to refrain from actions that may have a negative impact on the youth of Nungua.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission also called for the intervention of the National and Regional Houses of Chiefs, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection as well as the Department of Social Welfare to ensure that the best interests of the child are protected and child marriages are removed from our customary practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Nii Adjei Mensahfio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE NATIONAL COMMISSION for Civic Education (NCCE) has emphatically registered its displeasure over an alleged betrothal of a 12-year old girl to the Gborbu Wulomo of the Nungua Traditional Area, Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII, 63. 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