Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister Otiko Afisa Djaba has revealed for the first time that her “sister” Joyce Bawa-Mogtari, former Deputy Minister of Transport in the Mahama administration is the cause of a past rift between her (Otiko) and their mother.
According to 55-year-old Ms Djaba, Mrs Bawa-Mogtari, just a week before the 7 December 2016 general elections, conspired with “strangers” and “packed all my things out of my mother’s home in Bole”.
“Strangers went and removed my things, so, I called my mum and I told her that: ‘You’ve evicted me from your house, you’ve evicted me from your life.’ And she apologised for allowing that to happen without my knowledge. So people out there, you don’t know my story, so, don’t use politics to go there,” Ms Djaba told Kwadwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong (KABA) on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen political talk show on Wednesday, 8 March in response to queries about whether she was on good terms with her mother, especially with the day being International Women’s Day.
That same question featured prominently during Ms Djaba’s vetting when she appeared before Parliament’s Appointments Committee.
During the Asempa interview, she rebutted forcefully: “I have the right to do whatever I want to do in the area of my mother,” explaining: “A week to the elections, my sister, then-Deputy Minister of Transport Joyce Bawa-Mogtari and spokesperson for the John Mahama campaign, evicted me from my mother’s house in Bole.
“I wouldn’t have brought this up had the NDC not been pestering me about my relationship with my mother. They packed all my things from my mother’s house, so, people must know my story before they get up and be asking me about my relationship with my mother.
“It was all politics, but they claimed they were going to renovate the house, and, so, needed to move my things, but I’m the first born, so, I deserve to be pre-informed about such a thing but nothing was told me. I had so many things in my mother’s house, so I told them to wait till I come over or till I send my child over to pack them out, but they paid no heed.”
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If you were a mother between Otiko and Bawa whowould you naturally like. Imargine your son has become a president and one of your daughters is trying to help your son succeed whiles the other is aligning with oppositin to see your son fail, who will you naturally prefer. Look at the photographs, the demeanor of Otiko is that kind of quarrelsome whilst that of Mogtary is graceful. Naturally, all women will prefer Mogtari Bawa.
THERE ARE A LOT OF BABIES WHO CONTRIBUTES ON THIS PLATFORM.
Anyone who believes what Otiko Djaba is saying must be the most naive person alive. This is purely Kweku Ananse story. Besides, why do Adom TV and Asempa FM always allow guests especially from the NPP to make wild allegations without prove or an attempt to verify themselves. It was the same with Adom TV when they interviews Ken Agyapong who also made wild allegations against appointees of the former NDC administration. #SHAME #WORSEKINDOFJOURNALISM
Otiko and Bawa, l pry you guys smoke the peace pipe. Put the past behind you. Shame your enemies. Love one another as sisters. Don't let politics divide you. Learn from our second lady, Samira(NPP) and her brother Ramadan(NDC). Different ideologies but they are one.
oooooo so u were living in ur mother's hse huh. what a shame dat a woman like you at ur age cud still be putting up with her mother. tweeeaaaaa. no wonder u jump from one man to another
This otiko woman is just a troubled trouble causer who is troubled due to her disrespectful nature. I'm sure my President, Mahama, refused to marry you because of your dirty attitude....and it is still paining you haaaarrrrrd!!!! Loooolx ... you know, Mahama be fine man so for him to reject you blatantly like that, he has put you into eternal bitterness... hahahahaaa, wey tin be your problem? My president chose a courteous/decorous woman with ***barred word*** flesh over you ... see how ur neck veins pops out when u r talking chaka puuuuu!!! loooolx.
THEN BOLE IS A TOWN OF CONTRADICTIONS. GINAPO BROTHERS ARE SPLIT BETWEEN NPP AND NDC AND NOW OTIKO AND JOYCE ARE ALSO SPLIT BETWEEN THE SAME TWO PARTIES, PLEASE DONT ALLOW POLITICS TO DESTROY YOUR FAMILIES. YOU CAN HOLD YOU PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCES BUT DONT HATE THE OTHER IN YOUR FAMILY AS AN ENEMY. RESPECT THE OTHER VIEW AS YOU KEEP TO YOUR OWN OPINION. INSTEAD OF BEING ENEMIES, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR LOVE AND CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER A GOOD EXAMPLE OF MULTIPARTY POLITICS IN GHANA.
Please can someone shed light on the story that there was an arranged family marriage between the former President Mahama and Otiko but he declined and married madam Lordina, hence the bitter-hate against him? Or could madam Otiko give some insight into this too? Please someone with info should help me. Thanks.
Otiko, please don't respond to such inquiries. Don't air your dirty linen in public
Otiko should grow up. This is absolutely irresponsible of a minister for gender and social protection. By this time, one would have expected that she would have sorted the problem out with the mother and sisters. Her response clearly shows she is not matured. She could have said this is a family issue that the family have settled it amicably, but to through this out there means you still have score to settle with your mum and sister. You then open Pandora box if your mother and sister also come public to contest what you are saying. I don't think if KABA interviews nana Addo or JJ and asks them whether they have smoked weed before, they should go ahead and explain how they started smoking. Saying yes or no, settles the matter. Politics is all about allegations so you can't always be defensive. Mahama is your cousin, and Hawa is your blood sister, so stop this brouhaha and live peacefully with them.