A church leader has caused a stir after declaring that teenagers should be allowed to practice safe s*x.
Mr Nii Armah Hammond
Mr Nii Armah Hammond, a counselor and elder of the church of Pentecost, New Achimota District in Ghana, has admonished stakeholders to allow teenagers who can’t control their libido to be allowed to practice safe s*x.
The respectable church leader, was speaking on Ahotor fm during a program aimed at educating the youth.
Hammond believes that the best means of preventing teenage pregnancy and its associated complications is through protected s*x.
As he puts it, the stigma associated with teenage pregnancy affect the family concern long after the act and in most cases making the products of such pregnancy liabilities for the nation.
Telling the youth to abstain is a failed strategy, as they will have it anyway, he argued, so the best way to prevent teen pregnancy is to educate them on the use of condoms.
However, his utterances have caused outrage in some quarters with some insisting that giving teenagers the go-ahead to practice s*x will only increase the rate of promiscuity in society.