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“This is not the speech I edited? Where is the speech I edited? No, I can’t read this…. This morning, I edited this speech and this is different. And so I am trying to speak from my mind. So maybe I would do that. Ah!” these were the exact words of former Deputy Minister of Communications, Victoria Hamah under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration years ago at a public event.

This generated a public furore with calls Madam Victoria Hamah to be fired from her position because she was incompetent with sections claiming saying she is not qualified.

But commenting on the issue publicly for the first time, the Director of the Progressive Organization for Women Advancement (POWA) said she is disappointed in Ghanaians for the trolls when they should have been hailing her for doing what was right.

“When this came up, I was very disappointed about a lot of Ghanaians especially the intellectual Ghanaians that waged into this. Now listen to me, when are appointed to the position a minister you are not required to have technical efficiency in that department.  Look at the Ministry, before Nana Akufo-Addo became President has been a president before”, he asked.

According to her, she was rather smart and knowledgeable in making it public that the speech she edited was not the one she was reading and therefore had to stop midway.

“I thought Ghanaians should praise me for it. That is a very smart young girl in the position of government and she knows what is right and wrong”, she disclosed to Mikki Osei Berko, host of the ‘After Hours’ Show on TV3 monitored by MyNewsGh.com.