Elders of Kpikpira in the Tempane District of the Northern Region are accusing men in southern Ghana of luring women from the north with money to leave their husbands and marry them.
A spokesperson for the Kpikpira elders, Ali Yaro, has alleged that when women from the area travel to the south to raise money and return home to their husbands, the men down lure them with money to stay.
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He says, as a result, lots of men up north remain, bachelors, because the women they had hoped to marry have chosen to stay with relatively richer men in Accra, Kumasi and other southern cities of the country.
He was speaking with a team from World Vision who called on the chiefs and elders as part of a tour of World Vision projects at Tempane and other districts in the north.
Ali Yaro noted that because there are no jobs, resulting to the high poverty rate up north, the women, including married ones, travel to the south in search of greener pastures, and that is how they get trapped by the men in the cities.
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“The poverty level here is very high during the dry season because our lands are not fertile enough so both men and women travel to the cities to look for other alternatives for survival, and some end up doing galamsey.
“When our women go because they are new and desperate for jobs to make money they accept offers from men who promise to give them money and we the men up north suffer for it,” he lamented.
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Ali Yaro is therefore happy about the intervention by World Vision, such as the installation of shea-butter machines which is boosting the Shea-butter business and addressing the poverty issue.
He is, therefore, calling on all the citizens of the area who have travelled to the south to return home and join the lucrative Shea-butter business and help to develop their communities.