"I don't solicit sex"; stop calling me a prostitute – Nana Yaa Jantuah

“I’m not a prostitute,” the director of public relations and external affairs of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has disclaimed in an interview with Morning Starr’s Kafui Dey on Starr 103.5FM.

Ms Jantuah, who has been the face of the PURC as far as explaining issues concerning poor power supply are concerned, has been the butt of public anger in recent times after the Commission announced hikes in electricity and water tariffs despite a worsening power crisis that has necessitated a load shedding exercise.

“I heard people said that I am wicked, I am a prostitute…they say it on social media…[it makes me feel] bad,” she complained.

She said the constant abuse has made her contemplate resigning on several occasions but was stopped by her boss each time.

“Maybe when the time comes, I’ll resign,” she said. “I wish I could just pick my bag one day and say I’m gone, seriously. [I’ve given it serious thought]. Last night I was thinking about: ‘Why don’t I leave’.

“I was taught by my father [F A Jantuah, who served in the Nkrumah government] to do what is right and if I decide to take up a responsibility, I have to do it to the fullest at the time that I’m still there and when the time comes for me to leave then I’m gone.

“Ask my boss how many times haven’t I said I’m leaving. Because you see some of the things and [they] hit you: that somebody will say that you are a prostitute and a prostitute is somebody who solicits for sex openly and I don’t solicit for sex, I don’t do that and you find somebody you are older than just insulting you and talking to you anyhow. I’m getting to 50, but you get somebody [as young as] 24…[talking to you anyhow]. And that’s somebody I could give birth to,” she bemoaned.

“I’ll tell you a story: I was praying in church and somebody saw me and the person said he stopped praying and was looking at me to make sure it’s me. So when we finished he walked up to me and said: ‘Is that you?’ I said: ‘Why?’ He said: ‘You pray?’ I said: ‘Yes I’m a human being. I pray…I’m just doing a job and I do it to the best of my ability…some people say I’m a disgrace, some people say I’m not a good Christian, but Kafui if you’re given a job, you do it to the best of your ability.”