Minister for Foreign Affairs, Madam Ayorkor Botchway has described President Akufo-Addo’s comment on the Ghanaian women’s movement at the 2019 Women Deliver Conference in Canada as the hard truth feminists must accept.
“We all know that the truth hurts and that is a fact,” she insisted.
“What he said was a call to action; that he is not seeing the dynamism and he was speaking from the point of view from what was happening in Ghana and Africa.”
The President said despite the majority being women in Ghana, not much political and social action had been witnessed in their push for greater inclusion in Ghana’s political administration.
However the Minister maintains that action from women should come before the policy that makes things easier for women involvement in governance.
“If we are not fired up, the government will put in all the policies, the government will put in all the laws and yet nothing will change,” Madam Ayorkor Botchway maintained.
Hajia Alima ready for debate
Hajia Alima Mahama felt she was better placed for the discourse around gender and challenged critics to a debate on the points of contention.
“I want to meet them in a debate and please, journalists, set up independent panels and invite me,” she said when she addressed the press conference.
“When the president said something, they found their voice talking about things they don’t even understand” the Minister added.