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assaulting students who are placed under his protection, supervision and authority.

So that's one aspect.

Then the girls, they need to be taken care of.

We want the medical facilities, the Ghana Health Service, the Ministry of Health to take care of them because now they've been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.

There's syphilis out there, gonorrhea, HIV.

HIV has no cure and antiretroviral drugs will be an expense to the state for the rest of their life.

And we have even the HPV, the human papillomavirus, which causes cancer in especially girls who are forced or coerced or, you know, lured into early sex.

And sometimes by age 18 to 21, they are dead from, you know, cervical cancer.

There are all these dangers out there.

So I'll humbly plead with the parents and with the Ministry of Health to also support them for free medical care and free examination.

These are cures.

I mean, when you look at these STDs, it doesn't take 100 Ghana CDs or 50 Ghana CDs to solve the matter.

So that's also an information we should put out there to whoever is intending to cause mayhem to someone through sexual assault.

As

we know it, Gloria, the general ministry has dispatched officers to the place to try and help.

The Ganaba Association that you belong to and led for the first time by, you know, female lawyers, and, you know, they too have said that they are giving support through their members uh to these girls but before you get association for women yeah the question i was getting to is before you get excited perhaps that you can see the end of this case from the beginning as a lawyer you know that evidence is the name of the game And as we are being told, parents are being spoken to to withdraw.

Even the few of them who have made reports before are being asked to withdraw.

The police doesn't seem enthused to take steps to encourage the 19 or perhaps even go beyond that and go to the school that he was previously at in Sawam to get those other girls as well to make up a formidable brief and charge the person.

So your hopes may be dashed.

No, no, no, no.

Our hopes will not be dashed.

After all, the police are paid with the taxpayers' money.

They've sworn an oath to, you know, defend us and to protect us.

Likewise, the GES has sworn an oath to be an institution of education for citizens of Ghana, for our future leaders.

So the GES cannot turn their schools into brothels.