Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has hinted that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has put in place enough policies to protect the rights of women when they win the upcoming presidential seat come December 7, 2020.
She averred that the negligence and failure of the NPP government to lay down a programme to protect and also to eliminate allegation of women as witches have led Ghanaians into lynching.”
According to Nana Oye, the NDC began a programme to cease witch camps and to provide support for women who had been accused of being witches and even to do away with that customary practice under John Dramani Mahama hence the NPP in government has ignored it.
This came to light when Nana Oye Lithur Speaking on the lynching of the 90-year-old at Kafaba in the East Gonja municipality in the Savannah Region for alleged witchcraft saying the government must be blamed.
“If the NPP government were able to continue the programme started by John Mahama to eliminate accusation of women as witches, it would not have ended up the 90-year-old woman, Akua Denteh, into death,” she said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Abba Kwegyiba Aggrey
