{"id":605357,"date":"2019-04-05T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  5 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n2019-04-05\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/80936"},"modified":"2019-04-05T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:42:11","slug":"gender-ministry-now-talk-shop-after-strong-otiko-was-removed-mona-quartey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/05\/gender-ministry-now-talk-shop-after-strong-otiko-was-removed-mona-quartey\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Ministry now &#8216;talk shop&#8217; after &#8216;strong&#8217; Otiko was removed &#8211; Mona Quartey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  5 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-05<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/80936487.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mona Quartey NF\" title=\"Mona Quartey NF\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mona Quartey, former Deputy Finance Minister<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection was really effective and results-oriented when it had Ms Otiko Djaba at the helm of affairs, a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mrs Mona Quartey has said.<\/p>\n<p>In Mrs Quartey\u2019s estimation, ever since Ms Djaba was reshuffled from that ministry and offered a position as Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Italy by President Nana Akufo-Addo, which she rejected, the ministry has become a \u201ctalk shop\u201d and only into \u201cadopting\u201d children.<\/p>\n<p>Following her reshuffle in August 2018, Ms Djaba told the state-owned Daily Graphic that she preferred staying in Ghana to take care of her stroke-stricken ex-husband, who has been struggling with the ailment for over six years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot abandon him now,&#8221; she told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Djaba\u2019s replacement is Mrs Cynthia Mamle Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking on Thursday, 4 April 2019 at an economic forum of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), which was organised as a direct response to a town hall meeting held by the Akuf-Addo government\u2019s Economic Management Team led by Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia a day earlier, Mrs Quartey bemoaned the current state of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection following Ms Djaba\u2019s removal from that portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing I\u2019ll want to talk about\u201d, Mrs Quartey said, \u201cis on gender issues\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were all surprised when one of the forerunners of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia regime was let go as the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection. We were all surprised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a woman who was really pushing that ministry forward, I must say, even though she was not one of us, as NDC, she was a strong woman who pushed that ministry. She was let go, and today what do we see? We see that ministry just adopting children rather than solving the situation, we see the ministry not able to work with the security agencies to find missing girls, to resolve issues among women, but rather they have allowed all those things to slip, and it\u2019s all been a talk shop. Oh Bawumia, why?\u201d she wondered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 5 April 2019 Source: classfmonline.com 2019-04-05 Mona Quartey, former Deputy Finance Minister The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection was really effective and results-oriented when it had Ms Otiko Djaba at the helm of affairs, a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mrs Mona Quartey has said. 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