{"id":393112,"date":"2017-05-29T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T16:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/swiftly-dismiss-otiko-djaba-minority-tells-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T16:24:50","slug":"swiftly-dismiss-otiko-djaba-minority-tells-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/swiftly-dismiss-otiko-djaba-minority-tells-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Swiftly dismiss Otiko Djaba’ – Minority tells Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Minority in Parliament want the Gender minister dismissed after a public spat with her party’s Northern regional chairman.<\/p>\n

Keta MP Richard Quarshigah \u00a0said Otiko Djaba has ‘obviously’ ‘brought shame’ to the President and his government in a verbal assault on Bugri Naabu after he disrupted her meeting in the Northern region.<\/p>\n

She accused Bugri Naabu of taking cows, goats from party supporters with the promise to provide jobs.<\/p>\n

She has in turn been accused of being behind the 2015 murder of Upper East regional chairman Adams Mahama.<\/p>\n

Richard Quarshigah told Joy News ‘swiftly’ dismissing the outspoken minister is the ‘proper thing to do’.<\/p>\n

The Minority’s own feud with Otiko Djaba is an open secret.<\/p>\n

At her vetting where nominees often woo the Minority MPs, Otiko Djaba irked the NDC MPs after she refused to apologise for calling former president a ‘demon’.<\/p>\n

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Photo: NDC MPs on the Appointment Committee of Parliament<\/p>\n

She later explained the NDC MPs tried to use the vetting to score political points.<\/p>\n

Bruised by her intractable position, all 10 Minority members on Parliament\u2019s Appointment Committee voted against the approval of Otiko Afisa Djaba as Gender, Children, and Social Protection Minister.<\/p>\n

In an NPP-dominated parliament, the protestation had zero effect on her approval chances.<\/p>\n

In an I-told-you-so moment, the Minority says it feels vindicated by their opposition to Madam Djaba\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n

They say her actions justify their disapproval of Otiko Djaba whom they said lacks the temperament for the job.<\/p>\n

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Richard Quashigah<\/p>\n

The Minority’s call is not likely to impress the President who is a self-confessed lover of political controversies.<\/p>\n

“A politician who doesn\u2019t generate controversy is a dull politician, and that is not an interesting politics” he has said.<\/p>\n

Otiko Djaba and Bugri Naabu are both the president’s darlings and die-hard loyalists for the man who needed three attempts over 8 years to become president.<\/p>\n

The NPP National Women’s Organiser was an important figure in the formation of para-party group \u2018Girls Girls For Nana Addo\u2019, a wooing force for Akufo-Addo in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n

But unguarded outburst have been politically costly for government appointees. A deputy Communications minister under former government got fired following a private outburst and indiscretion in November 2015.<\/p>\n

She was recorded allegedly saying she would stay in politics until she has made $1m. She also criticised another deputy minister, calling her “senseless, ugly, loud and egoistic”.<\/p>\n

More than two and a half years after this incident, the NDC appear on the look-out for a Victoria Hammah example in the Otiko Djaba fracas with Bugri Naabu.<\/p>\n

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Victoria Hammah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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