The Okyeman Council will deal drastically with any person, especially teachers, priests or chiefs who impregnate schoolgirls in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional area, says the state owned daily, the Ghanaian Times.

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, who announced this at a durbar held in his honour when he visited the town as part of his tour of towns and villages in the area, said the council would soon launch a campaign to hunt down all "run-away fathers" from the area and compel them to take up their parental responsibilities to their abandoned children.

"If such fathers prove difficult, Okyeman would let the law take its course in dealing with them because the Council can no longer tolerate irresponsible fathers".

He cautioned women in the area to always look for responsible men to ensure a better future for them and their children.

Osagyefo Amoatia stressed the need to end teenage pregnancies in the country saying that such pregnancies did not only bring untold hardship to the mothers and their children but society as a whole.