{"id":188707,"date":"2016-02-10T16:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=188707"},"modified":"2016-02-10T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T16:18:49","slug":"early-marriage-ill-commit-murder-if-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/early-marriage-ill-commit-murder-if-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’ll commit murder if my under age daughter is married off’ – Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"
President John Mahama has condemned the phenomenon of child\u00a0marriages in the country.<\/p>\n
President Mahama while speaking at the opening ceremony of the 7th Africa Conference on Sexual and Health Right in Accra on Wednesday said, he would commit murder or probably end up in jail if anybody attempted to marry off his under 18 year old daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201c…Why should you be forced to marry somebody you have no affection for, and especially a child. If my daughter is below 18 and somebody attempted to marry her off, I probably will be in prison; I will commit murder,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”MaKUHZWon5IsxBkTank6kyMRXbBi6343″]He bemoaned the child marriage phenomenon especially in the 21st<\/sup> Century despite several efforts to curb it.<\/p>\n President Mahama further admonished school authorities to report such developments to the appropriate quarters.<\/p>\n He said \u201cIf a girl stops coming to school, ring the alarm bells, try and find out where the child is and alert the authorities as early as possible so that we can prevent them from being married off.\u201d<\/p>\n Child marriage cases in Ghana alarming<\/strong><\/p>\n