Dr. Otiko Afisa Djaba, former Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has described how she felt about her time as gender minister, during an interview on GhanaWeb's Election Desk.
According to her, it was like a dream come true when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo asked her to lead the Ministry of Gender.
She said that when she was called, she felt so excited that her walking changed, especially considering how hard the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had worked to gain power but had been unsuccessful.
To Dr. Otiko, a promise she had received had finally been fulfilled.
“From February 2017 to August 2018… it was over a year and it was exciting; it was a great time. We had worked so hard to come into power and in 2008 you know we had lost the elections and in 2012 we had lost the elections and we went to court and we lost and so to win and to be made a minister, it was like I was walking on cloud 10; my walkings changed. You know, it was like a dream had finally been fulfilled,” she said.
Dr. Otiko added that her reason for taking up that position had finally come to pass, adding that she knew she didn’t deserve such an opportunity from the onset.
She said, “The reason I became a National Women’s Organiser had finally come to pass; bohye na Nyame hy3 y3 no aba mu enti mensuro hwee (to wit, the promise of God has finally come to pass and so I wouldn’t fear anything). I was very excited and consumed by my sense of responsibility, thinking that I didn’t deserve this."
"Who would have brought me here, that I have been asked to go and lead this important ministry? People don’t realize how important the Ministry of Gender is,” she told Matilda Boateng Nartey, host of the program.
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Watch her full interview on GhanaWeb TV’s Election Desk here:
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