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Controversy Erupts as 63-Year-Old Minister Marries 12-Year-Old in Ghana

Outrage in Ghana as 63-year-old minister weds 12-year-old girl

Anjali

A contention has arisen following a 63-year-old persuasive minister wedded a 12-year-old young lady in Ghana in a conventional service. According to BBC, Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII, a profound forerunner in the Nungua region of the capital, Accra, marry the unidentified youngster in an immense function on Saturday. Mr Tsuru, known as a "Gborbu Wulomo," or customary esteemed cleric, uses huge otherworldly expert in the Nungua native local area.

Remarkably, the service occurred in spite of the legitimate least age to get hitched in Ghana being 18 years of age. Pictures of the wedding service, which was gone to by many local area individuals, show the little kid in a basic white dress and a matching headpiece.

During the function, ladies communicating in the neighborhood language Ga supposedly advised the young lady to dress teasingly for her significant other. According to BBC, they were likewise heard encouraging her to be ready for wifely obligations and to utilize the fragrances they gifted her to help her enticement for her significant other.

The photographs set off a public clamor by numerous Ghanaians who brought up that the training was unlawful. Pundits have likewise required the specialists to break down the marriage and examine the minister.