Scores of women in and around North Tongu District of the Volta Region are seething with rage at the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Ms. Delphia Fafa Agbayi.
The anger of the women, Today learnt, follows alleged denigrating comments made by the DCE against women in the area.
According to the angry women, it was “irresponsible” on the part of the DCE to have said on Klenam FM, a local radio station in the area, that a vote for the only independent candidate in the praliamnetary race will bring them nothing than sanitary pads and beads.
The women said the DCE made those insulting remarks on Sunday, November 27, 2016 on Klenam FM.
That alleged comment by the DCE has however, received condemnation from the women in the district with majority of them calling on President Dramani Mahama to relieve Ms. Agbai of her duty.
Addressing a press conference at Juapong yesterday, the aggrieved women including old ladies who were clad in red armbands, noted they were appalled by the comment by Ms. Agbayi, and described it as “irresponsible.”
Amid drumming and signing of war songs, the women asserted that “We want to rebut and condemn without reservation this childish and unguided pronouncement made by no mean a trustworthy government representative than Fafa Agbayi.”
Led by North Tongu Women Organiser, Ms. Belinda Ayibor, they reiterated that the DCE has no moral obligation to promote discrimination on the basis of sex, religion or race.
“In our view, the North Tongu DCE’s indecent effusions have become one too many, and that the time to mobilise against her conduct is now.
According to the women, the DCE’s penchant for “vulgarity” was becoming too legendary and must therefore be tamed.
“We want to use this opportunity to crave the indulgence of all the converging voices on this matter to stick together in our glorious beliefs in sustaining the pressure on the self-conceited DCE to retract and apologise unreservedly to the women in North Tongu and women in Ghana,” they stated.
The women believe Ms. Agbayi’s comment do not surprise them as she has the record of spilling out such unguarded statements.
“Sadly, she made these comments on a radio station owned by an NDC MP,” they told the media.
Meanwhile, Chief of Dorfor who got wind of the story became peeved at the DCE for using Klenam FM, to make such unprintable statement.
The aggrieved chief therefore, called on queen mothers of Poedoe Traditional Area, President John Dramani Mahama and leadership of the National Democratic Congress to call Ms. Agbayi and her cohorts to order.
Consequently, the chiefs of Vorlor sent an eight-member delegation to the chiefs and queen mothers of Mepe, Battor and Aveyime Traditional Areas to impress upon management of Klenam FM and Ms. Agbayi to retract the story and render unqualified apology to women including Mr. Eleblu and the people of Dorfor.
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