She said the re-entry was expedited in the 2024/2025 academic year, saying some of those girls left or dropped out of school due to pregnancy, poverty, and child/forced marriage.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, Mrs Yalley explained the re-entry policy was introduced by the Girl Child Education Unit of the GES aimed at ensuring that girls who had a break in education were reintegrated into school.

"We even have as peculiar case on child marriage last year, however, we were able to rescue the girl and she is now in one of the SHSS in the region", she stated, saying though child/forced marriage was down in the region, there were still some cases in the local communities.

Mrs Yalley, also the Founder of the Help Her Ghana, a girl-child centered non-profit organisation working to improve the wellbeing of vulnerable girls, therefore urged local communities to contribute to the fight against child marriage by reporting cases to the relevant organisations, including GES, police, and the Human Rights.

She indicated that making girls assertive remained key to fighting child/forced marriages, worrying that though some of the rescued victims had enough evidence, they were unwilling to testify against the perpetrators, and thereby making offenders to escape the law.

Mrs Yalley indicated that it required strict law enforcement to stem child/forced marriages, as well as some outmoded traditional norms, inimical to the growth and development of girls, and called on parents to be more responsible too towards the proper upbringing and development of their children.