The Ministry of Gender now "talk shop" after the removal of the "powerful" Otiko – Mona Quartey

General News on Friday, April 5th, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-04-05

The Ministry of Gender, Childhood and Welfare was very effective and results-oriented when it put Ms. Otiko Djaba at the helm, said Ms. Mona Quartey, former Deputy Minister. finances.

According to Ms. Quartey, since Ms. Djaba was redistributed from this ministry and was appointed ambbadador of Ghana to Italy by President Nana Akufo-Addo, which she rejected, the ministry became a "discussion workshop" reserved for "adoptive children". .

After reshuffling in August 2018, Ms. Djaba told the government daily Daily Graphic that she preferred to stay in Ghana to take care of her ex-husband, a stroke victim, who had been suffering from this disease for more than six years.

"I can not leave her now," she told the newspaper.

Ms. Djaba's replacement is Ms. Cynthia Mamle Morrison.

However, on Thursday April 4, 2019, at an economic forum organized by the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), organized in response to a public meeting organized by the team of economic management of the Akuf-Addo Government, chaired by the Vice President. The President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, a day earlier, Ms. Quartey lamented the current status of the Ministry of Gender, Childhood and Social Welfare after the withdrawal of Ms. Djaba from this portfolio.

"The last thing I want to talk about," said Ms. Quartey, "is about gender issues."

"We were all surprised when one of the predecessors of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia regime was released as Minister of Women's Affairs, Childhood and Welfare. We were all surprised.

"She was a woman who really pushed this ministry forward, I must say that, even though she was not one of us, as an NDC, she was a strong woman who pushed this ministry. She was let go and today, what do we see? We see that the ministry is only adopting children rather than solving the situation, but that it is unable to work with security agencies to find missing girls, to solve women's problems, but he rather let all these things slip, and that's all. been a chat store. Oh Bawumia, why? She wondered.