The former Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba, has explained why she declined an ambassadorial job President Akufo Addo offered to serve as Ghana’s Ambassador to Italy in 2018.
She said she has no regrets about rejecting the job because she is retiring from active politics.
Speaking on GTV, she said her four children had to be content with an absentee mother for years because of her work in the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) space and later into a full-time party and national politics.
Otiko Djaba stated: “I’d worked for sixteen years, I had four children, I was waking up at 2 am, 5 am to go to work all over the country. I became an absentee mother, I had the right to spend time with my children.”
“It is the best thing that ever happened to me, for me to decline to go to Italy and the best thing that ever happened to me to come out of development to go into politics,” she added.
Source: Pulseghana
