Re: Honorable my foot

USA NDC WOMEN GROUPS CONDEMNS THE UNSAVORY COMMENTS MADE BY KENNEDY AGYPONG.

We, the women caucuses of NDC USA, wish to add our voices condemning in no uncertain terms the unsavory, unparliamentarily, and uncouth remarks made by Kennedy Agyapong against Mrs. Charlotte Osei, the EC Chairperson.

It is high time characters such as Agyapong are brought to order to rescue the enviable reputation of the august Ghanaian legislature.

Indeed, this is not the first time Agyapong has come out to openly attack a hard working woman in Ghana. Agyapong not long ago attacked the radio presenter Afia Schwarzenegger insulting her as a prostitute. Ghanaians can still recall the incident when the same Agyapong was calling for the attack and killing of Ga’s and Ewe’s.

Agyapong is now suggesting that Ghanaian women, and African women in general, cannot occupy any office through their own hard work but by exchanging sexual favors. Is Agyapong suggesting that our Chief Justice and other women in high offices who were appointed by political leaders did not qualify and so traded sex for their positions?

We want to know how many women Agyapong had sexually exploited before offering them a job at his media firms (Oman FM and Net 2) We want Agyapong to bring out his so- called evidence against the EC boss. We also want Agyapong to know that it is about time he started respecting women. A woman once took care of him when he was a child. We want Agyapong to know that women in Ghana go through all manner of trials to get to the various positions that they occupy, harder than their male counter parts. Indeed, our lawyers, judges, police, military, and other civil servants go through the same training and interviews before they are employed. Reducing them to the level of prostitutes should be condemned by all well-meaning Ghanaians.

Therefore, we the women of the various caucuses of the NDC USA are calling on the Chief Justice, her Lordship Theodora Wood, and the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Honorable Doe Agdjaho, to call Mr. Kennedy Agyapong to order and bring some level of justice and fairness to how we treat our women in Ghana. WE also call for Ghanaians to demand that people representing us in various spheres of national life to be held accountable for their actions and utterances and made to act with the decorum befitting their office.

If Agyapong and his ilk can attack institutions such the Electoral Commission without basis and go scot-free, then he can equally be motivated to attack other important institution like the Supreme Court and the security forces without justification.

In condemning the unsavory comments by Agyapong, we also condemn any comments, past, present or the future, against any women organizations in Ghana.

Long live Ghana and long live Ghanaian women.

Mrs. Janet Wilson

(USA National Women Organizer)