Why Condoms and pads are more expensive than food? – Kwaku Manu Asks Government

Ghanaian actor Kwaku Manu claims that the high cost of condoms and pads in the country is to blame for the rise in teenage pregnancies and school dropout rates.

He asserts that a number of his students have left school because they cannot afford condoms, which they ought to use for safe sexual behavior to prevent unintended pregnancies.

Kwaku Manu asserts that fewer students would have dropped out of school if the government had been able to subsidize the cost of condoms and sanitary napkins.

“I would beg the nation's leaders; I have never before discussed this matter. Condoms are one of the items that will enable our nation to advance, but many people are reluctant to purchase them.

The second thing is a pad, the one women use when they menstruate. It is very essential but today pads and condoms are more expensive than banku that we eat.

“Someone dropped out of school because she mistakenly got pregnant. Meanwhile, if condoms cost even GH¢2 the person could have bought them for protection. Now pad costs almost GH¢20, how can a poor schoolgirl or an orphan afford this? So I am pleading with the leaders to do something about this, it's very difficult, and I know they have money,” Kwaku Manu said in a video shared on his Instagram page.

 

SOURCE: Dklassgh.Com