President Nana Akufo-Addo Nationality Ghanaian Party New Patriotic Party | Preceded by Nana Oye Lithur Political party New Patriotic Party | |
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Born January 21, 1962 (age 55) ( 1962-01-21 ) | ||
Otiko afisa djaba i will not apologize to mahama
Otiko Afisa Djaba (born 21 January 1962) is a Ghanaian politician and minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection. She has three children, one boy and two girls. Her previous engagement was the National Women's Organizer for the New Patriotic Party. She is known to have expressed excessive emotionalism using unsavory language to describing a siting president when in a 2016 political rally she invoked the ethnic card to call on her tribes people to reject John Mahama at the polls describing him as a "desperate" and "incompetent violent person" with the "heart of a devil" who's renewed tenure will bring about "years of more corruption, unemployment and poverty". She further described him as "extremely wicked", "evil", "corrupt", "a failure" and "an embarrassment to northerners" Her temperamental display led to the minority legislators questioning her ability to hold the position of a minister of state.
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Early life
Otiko was born on 21 January 1962 to Henry Kojo Djaba and Rosalind Sheita Bawa at Koforidua in the Eastern Region of Ghana. She is the second of twenty-one siblings.
Education
She attended Tamale Secondary School now Tamale Senior High School. She holds a diploma in Communications and marketing from an institution in the United Kingdom. She has also had training as a Computer Systems Analyst from a college in the United Kingdom.
Political Life
Otiko Djaba in 2008 contested the Bole Bamboi seat on the ticket of the NPP but lost to former President, Mr John Dramani Mahama and later became Women's Organizer of the New Patriotic Party. The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection started her political life at an early age and encourages females to enter into politics as well.
Opposition to ministerial position
Minority legislators walked out of a voting process to approve her appointment as Gender, Children and Social Protection ministers following her refusal to apologize for using unsavoury language against a former sitting president, collectively stating that "they believe her temperament and attitude does not give [them] assurance that she will be able to better manage the affairs of Ghanaian children and women". Prior to the 2016 general election in Ghana, Otiko Afisa Djaba called on her Gonja tribes-people to vote John Mahama out because he has not being faithful to them, described him as “very wicked, incompetent and desperate", intimating that he was an “evil” person who "does not deserve another four years in office”. Speaking before Parliamentary vetting committee in January 2017, she said, "I owe former President John Mahama no apology... The President is my brother and I spoke from my conviction". Concerns were also raised about her violation of the The Ghana National Service Scheme Act 426 section 7 which mandates all university graduates to do a compulsory 1 year national service to the country before taking public office, and her reiterating the assertion that Charlotte Osei offered sexual favors to John Mahama in exchange for her position as Electoral Commission of Ghana chairperson.
