We’ve been left behind; let’s do better – Okudzeto Ablakwa
The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has bemoaned the gender imbalance on the list of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Cabinet Ministers.
According to the former Deputy Education Minister, having three women out of the 19 nominees is unacceptable in the current dispensation.
o him, Ghana can do better, adding that many progressive countries have left us behind in appointing a gender-balanced Cabinet.
In a post on Facebook, he queried how the Gender Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, did not make it to the list.
He wrote: Only three women in a 19-member Cabinet cannot be acceptable in 2021. Many progressive countries such as Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Canada, Columbia etc have left us behind in appointing gender-balanced Cabinets. Not even the Gender Minister made it to the list. Let’s do better.
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Some members of the Cabinet are Minister Of Finance – Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Trade And Industry, Alan Kyerematen; Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, MP and Minister of Interior; Ambrose Dery, MP.
Others are Minister of Foreign Affairs And Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey; Attorney General and Minister For Justice, Godfred Dame, Minister Of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Dan Botwe, MP among others.
The Minister for National Security, Kan Dapaah; Gender Minister, Adwoa Safo; Information Minister; Kojo Oppong Nkrumah were, however, missing from the list.
SOURCE: Adomonline
