President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has received backing from the Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr. on his gender comment.
President Akufo-Addo contributing to a penal discussion at a "Women Deliver Global Conference" in Canada, suggested that not enough dynamism had been made by women to take up decision-making positions in governance.
He told the gathering of women advocates that “we are not seeing enough dynamism and activism on the part of those who are seeking. I am talking about dynamism where it matters . . . electing people to Parliament, controlling political parties because they are the instruments by which our societies make decisions. We are talking about decisions, not wishes and hopes, we are talking about decisions that are going to make the difference.”
The President has however been condemned by some women activists who felt he presented a negative view about women in the country.
But speaking on Joy FM's newsfile programme, Saturday, Kweku Baako said there was nothing wrong with what the President said.
"I did not hear the President take a stand against women empowerment; I heard him make an urge…(but) to move beyond that and say what he said was a disgrace; to indict him, I disagree with that . . . I don’t see anything wrong with what the president said . . . the attack is not going to help the debate," he stated.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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I think the sympathizers of the ndc and their cohort are those interpreting the prez views on women dynamism from a different context. is it the english he spoke like a british man..lol!! or is it what Dr Bawumia said about these Mahama led Inco..... people "that they don't read and when they read too they don't understand?". i just don't get it a bit....What the prez said was a hard truth and any reasonab*le being would embrace it.........
Vicky I couldn't agree with you more.. Women are even scared to stand for political positions..even in church sometimes u have to push them to go for it..Dynamism is what the president is talking about.. Not some few people who context for elections and even their fellow women will not vote for them.. Their fellow women will rather undermine and gossip about them.. Women wake up and stop this blame game.. By the way we thank God for our mothers.. Women are their own enemies and sometimes the arrogance when u give them top positions brings hatred to them
hey guys what is the ratio women to men in Ghana, and how many women stood for election in 2016, and how many were voted into parliament. where were the so called women advocate who watched whiles the women who are more than men voted for the male candidate to go to parliament. if every woman voted for a woman candidate in every constituency what do you thing will be the population of women in parliament for Akufo-addo to appoint them as minister. women are their own enemies not men or Akuffo_addo so let him Akuffo addo be wai
Nana did not say anything wrong about women's empowerment, as Kwaku Baako said. Instead, he said it as it is, that our women should compete favourably and vary tactics for positions in Ghana. Affirmative action is not enough, but asserting themselves to take positions competitively is important for our women. I do not have time for women who succumb to every situation they encounter, and accept the status quo. No, this is defeatist. I do not want to see women given in to supposed pastors to undress and bath them at the beach. Factly, our women should rise above the mediocrity stance they find themselves. Every person who sympathizes with the current position of our women, would surely support Nana's point.
One thing is very clear that our President is not a hypocrite. If you are not politically active and stay indifferent you allow fooolish people to rule you and decide for you.The population of women in Ghana outweighs that of men, yet we have more men in dicission making positions than women. And that is a fact. Therefore, we have to encourage more women to take up such positions. The quota rules and affirmative actions are just not enough in the long term. It appears as if without the lordship 'dashing' the women the positions they are equally well qualified to possess like their men counterpart, the women are not able to make any meaningful headway by themselves. That in itself is very discriminatory and degrading as an able and confident woman. Indeed, the Government of the day can fairly provide the citizenry with the appropriate tools like education and awareness to bring all persons on board. I pray that NDC does not jump in here to make their usual irresponsible, populistic and hypocritical politics.
The slush fund is still there abi. Kwaku has to pay his bills. I watched him on newsfile struggling to defend his pay master.
why wont him defend him,kwaku and sefa are stomach media men for npp and thier ***barred word*** akofu addo
Can someone tell him to come home and assemble his security personnel on the way forward for the kidnappings going on in Ghana. If you allow all unscrupulous people to the country without due diligence that's what you get. Even if it is sabotage what are you doing about it as a President. Have you taken time to make a news conference and talk to Ghanaians on an alien thing like this and the way forward.
Kweku, Nana should not have been at that conference in the first place. That is all. We all know Nana is very good at reading speeches and was a very good lawyer but he is not the "intellectual" type of leader like the Dr. Busias. As much as possible he should avoid going to sit on those panels, please