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Kidnapping scare: Teachers of some public schools living in fear over inadequate security personnel, improper measures

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Inadequate security personnel coupled with improper safety measures on campuses of some public schools in the country have become a major cause of worry to teachers in recent times. In an era where abductions and violent crimes appeared to be on the ascendancy, the teachers have expressed utmost fear for the lives of children. Some teachers of Accra College of Education-Demonstration School, located at Legon in Accra who earlier shared their frustration in an interview with a team of Human Rights Reporters Ghana(HRRG), said they fear the children are at risk of getting kidnapped if the situation at hand is not improved. The HRRG team of volunteers were at the school premise last Friday June 7, to educate the entire school population on kidnapping and its related issues to guide them in taking precautions to avoid being victims. One of the teacher's explained inadequacy of security personnel coupled with lack of improper security measures on campus has compelled teache

‘He touched my private part, breasts: The hidden nightmare of rape perpetrated on 17-year-old JHS student by her uncle’

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HRRG Boss, Joseph Kobla Wemakor in an interview with victim  She could have fallen easily into the trap of her own uncle who attempted raping her during her visit to his house to assist with some household chores the last time. It is very pathetic of someone in whom her confidence is reposed as a guide and a role model. Someone who is supposed to be her pillar of support through her early stages of development into an adulthood. Regrettably, someone she hardly believes could behave in such an unjustly manner, the way he treated her. Who could have fathomed how a naïve and young girl like Cynthia Adu (not her real name), 17, could manage to outwit and extricate herself from a well-calculated trap of a ‘sexual predator’ in the name of her mother's kid brother (uncle)?. Impossible indeed! The thought of rape in mind could mean a whole lot for her. It means she could either contract one or more of those deadliest sexually transmitted diseases, become pregnant as a teenager