Otiko Djaba, a former minister of gender, children, and social protection, has provided an explanation for why she turned down an offer to serve as Ghana’s ambassador to Italy made by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2018.
She claimed that because she is leaving active politics, she has no regrets about turning down the position.
Speaking on GTV, she claimed that because of her work in the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) sector and later in full-time party and national politics, her four children had to put up with an absent mother for years.
Otiko Djaba stated: “I’d worked for sixteen years, I had four children, I was waking up at 2 am, 5 am to go to work all over the country. I became an absentee mother, I had the right to spend time with my children.”
“It is the best thing that ever happened to me, for me to decline to go to Italy and the best thing that ever happened to me to come out of development to go into politics,” she added.
She did, however, express gratitude to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying that since she had been working in 98 communities prior to entering politics, it would have been impossible for her to accomplish everything she had just described.
Otiko Djaba, a devoted supporter of Nana Addo, claimed that she informed the President of both choices and that she plans to unwind and enjoy herself with her family.
Ms. Djaba served as the NPP National Women’s Organiser before joining the government in February 2017.
When the party descended into bitter internal disputes in 2015 with a crucial general election scheduled for December 2016, Ms. Djaba liked to call for fasting and prayers.
Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC’s) Sammy Gyamfi, the director of communications, has revealed the ludicrous contradictions in the employment and labor relations minister Ignatius Baffour Awuah’s and vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia‘s figures regarding the jobs they assert the government has created.
