... In favour of adopted child
The one and only son of Mrs Gladys Asmah, Minister in Charge of Women's and Children's Affairs, now, lies on a sick bed in the house of a caring and a benefactor-aunt, Madam Helena Amoah, in Takoradi. The mother, the Minister, virtually abandoned the son, Kojo Amarh Asmah, then a Hammond, when he was only five to the "care" of her sister, Helena, that was just after Kojo's father, one Mr Hammond, a prominent timber merchant and Gladys had divorced.
Since then, over 35 years ago, Auntie Gladys, the woman, who is now in charge of the welfare of all women and children in Ghana, has refused to set her eyes on her own child. As fate would have it, Kojo, unfortunately, is now afflicted with a "strange" disease, which has made the hospital, to serve almost as his second home. Plans are now afoot to send Kojo to a village near, Komenda, for spiritual healing. But, all this while, Mrs Asmah has maintained "a clear distance" from her son, even in ill-health. Speaking to the 'Ghana Palaver,' interspersed with free-flowing tears, Kojo could only recall how his mother "surrendered" him to her sister, at a tender age and has since grown to know that his own mother hates to set eyes on him.
Even on his sick bed, both at home and at the hospital on many occasions, his mother has not shown any love or compassion towards him. "There is nothing in common between the two of us. Indeed, she hates me. Perhaps, she wishes I were dead", Kojo said, still shedding tears. Kojo Asmah attended the Half Assin Secondary School between 1972-79. He then spent some time at the Takoradi Polytechnic before enrolling at the Institute of Management Studies, Kumasi, where he undertook a course in Business Accounting for a year.
Kojo felt he had a calling to priesthood, so he entered a seminary for religions studies. However, with only three months to "graduation", he was surprisingly withdrawn. He suspects that even his own mother had a hand in his withdrawal from the institution. Meanwhile, Auntie Gladys is known to have an adopted daughter, Mame Akowah, who lives in London.
Prior to his ailment, Kojo Asmah had two children with one Auntie Cecilia, who is caring for them. Attempt to get Mr Gladys Asmah to give us her version of this strange story, described earlier as an "Inhuman Interest" story, drew blank. It will be recalled that the Minister recently raised funds, totaling about ?500 million, to help "liberate" young workers, contracted from a town in the Central Region, for work at Yeji
...And throws grandson out of home
DANIEL Asmah 18, is a student of Fijai Secondary School in the Western Region, but unlike most of his mates, he faces multiple problems before he writes the final examinations which will determine his future. That future, from the look of current happenings in his family, looks gloomy because he happens to be born to a father who is regarded as a pariah in an affluent family.For, just three weeks into being taken into solace, courtesy of an invincible aunt, Daniel has been bundled out of a home, where he really belongs, into the gloom that has been his lot since he emerged on Earth's surface. Daniel's grandmother is Mrs Gladys Asmah, the Minister of Women and Children Affairs in the NPP government. She, it is, who has been charged with the responsibility of championing the welfare of women and children in Ghana under the present government. And true to the demands of her job Mrs Asmah has trumpeted, even from the bowels of the earth, her commitment to ensure that women and children of Ghana received their due share of excellence, in women and children's welfare.
But that exactly is where Daniel's dilemma enters. For him, it is strange that while his grandmother (Mrs Asmah) works "assiduously" to ensure that children and women in the country are not deprived their due, vis-a-vis their comfort and privilege to progress in life, he has become a victim of an entrenched hatred the grandmother has for his father, Mr Kojo Asmah. And a pleas that his father be treated in a manner befitting him, especially as the first and only son Mrs. Gladys Asmah has earned Daniel a 'Return To Sender' punishment being thrown back to go and live with his mother at Kojokrom.
Daniel, the elder of two sons Kojo Asmah has, had lived and been catered for all this while, by his mother Cecilia at Kojokrom until his aunt interceded on his behalf when she came from London in connection with the death of the husband of Madam Helena Amoah, Mr Asmah elder sister.
That aunt, sources allege, is an adopted child of Mrs. Asmah However, she is adored and respected than Mrs Asmah's biological son, whom she treats like a pariah in the family. And it is that hatred which was visited on little Daniel. "Can a woman's tender care case towards the child she bears? Observers have wondered. Daniel, for now has more problems to surmount. God be his Keeper
... In favour of adopted child
The one and only son of Mrs Gladys Asmah, Minister in Charge of Women's and Children's Affairs, now, lies on a sick bed in the house of a caring and a benefactor-aunt, Madam Helena Amoah, in Takoradi. The mother, the Minister, virtually abandoned the son, Kojo Amarh Asmah, then a Hammond, when he was only five to the "care" of her sister, Helena, that was just after Kojo's father, one Mr Hammond, a prominent timber merchant and Gladys had divorced.
Since then, over 35 years ago, Auntie Gladys, the woman, who is now in charge of the welfare of all women and children in Ghana, has refused to set her eyes on her own child. As fate would have it, Kojo, unfortunately, is now afflicted with a "strange" disease, which has made the hospital, to serve almost as his second home. Plans are now afoot to send Kojo to a village near, Komenda, for spiritual healing. But, all this while, Mrs Asmah has maintained "a clear distance" from her son, even in ill-health. Speaking to the 'Ghana Palaver,' interspersed with free-flowing tears, Kojo could only recall how his mother "surrendered" him to her sister, at a tender age and has since grown to know that his own mother hates to set eyes on him.
Even on his sick bed, both at home and at the hospital on many occasions, his mother has not shown any love or compassion towards him. "There is nothing in common between the two of us. Indeed, she hates me. Perhaps, she wishes I were dead", Kojo said, still shedding tears. Kojo Asmah attended the Half Assin Secondary School between 1972-79. He then spent some time at the Takoradi Polytechnic before enrolling at the Institute of Management Studies, Kumasi, where he undertook a course in Business Accounting for a year.
Kojo felt he had a calling to priesthood, so he entered a seminary for religions studies. However, with only three months to "graduation", he was surprisingly withdrawn. He suspects that even his own mother had a hand in his withdrawal from the institution. Meanwhile, Auntie Gladys is known to have an adopted daughter, Mame Akowah, who lives in London.
Prior to his ailment, Kojo Asmah had two children with one Auntie Cecilia, who is caring for them. Attempt to get Mr Gladys Asmah to give us her version of this strange story, described earlier as an "Inhuman Interest" story, drew blank. It will be recalled that the Minister recently raised funds, totaling about ?500 million, to help "liberate" young workers, contracted from a town in the Central Region, for work at Yeji
...And throws grandson out of home
DANIEL Asmah 18, is a student of Fijai Secondary School in the Western Region, but unlike most of his mates, he faces multiple problems before he writes the final examinations which will determine his future. That future, from the look of current happenings in his family, looks gloomy because he happens to be born to a father who is regarded as a pariah in an affluent family.For, just three weeks into being taken into solace, courtesy of an invincible aunt, Daniel has been bundled out of a home, where he really belongs, into the gloom that has been his lot since he emerged on Earth's surface. Daniel's grandmother is Mrs Gladys Asmah, the Minister of Women and Children Affairs in the NPP government. She, it is, who has been charged with the responsibility of championing the welfare of women and children in Ghana under the present government. And true to the demands of her job Mrs Asmah has trumpeted, even from the bowels of the earth, her commitment to ensure that women and children of Ghana received their due share of excellence, in women and children's welfare.
But that exactly is where Daniel's dilemma enters. For him, it is strange that while his grandmother (Mrs Asmah) works "assiduously" to ensure that children and women in the country are not deprived their due, vis-a-vis their comfort and privilege to progress in life, he has become a victim of an entrenched hatred the grandmother has for his father, Mr Kojo Asmah. And a pleas that his father be treated in a manner befitting him, especially as the first and only son Mrs. Gladys Asmah has earned Daniel a 'Return To Sender' punishment being thrown back to go and live with his mother at Kojokrom.
Daniel, the elder of two sons Kojo Asmah has, had lived and been catered for all this while, by his mother Cecilia at Kojokrom until his aunt interceded on his behalf when she came from London in connection with the death of the husband of Madam Helena Amoah, Mr Asmah elder sister.
That aunt, sources allege, is an adopted child of Mrs. Asmah However, she is adored and respected than Mrs Asmah's biological son, whom she treats like a pariah in the family. And it is that hatred which was visited on little Daniel. "Can a woman's tender care case towards the child she bears? Observers have wondered. Daniel, for now has more problems to surmount. God be his Keeper
