Gender Minister cautions ‘publicity-hungry’ celebs; condemns Moesha Boduong

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afiah Djaba, has denounced the “destructive” comments by Moesha Boduong, suggesting that the Ghanaian economy forces women to offer sex for financial help.
Ms. Djaba said although Moesha has the right to discuss her lifestyle on any platform, “she does not represent the multitudes of hardworking Ghanaian women.”
Moesha Boduong in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, claimed the economy is so bad that women are pushed into sexual relationships with men who can cater for their financial needs.
She told the celebrated journalist, who was in the country to produce a documentary that: “In Ghana, our economy is such a way that you need someone to take care of you. You can’t make enough money as a woman here. Because even when you want to get an apartment, in Ghana they take two years’ advance and I just started working where will I get money to pay?”
Although Moesha has reportedly issued a public apology over the statement, the Gender Minister, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has in a release, cautioned “publicity-hungry actresses and socialites that while it is within their right to bask in infamy and self-ridicule, they have no right to drag decent, hardworking Ghanaian women into their destructive obsession with notoriety and infamy at any price.”
“Ghana is a respectable country with a great heritage and proud citizens. If any Ghanaian cannot lift high the flag of Ghana, the least he/she can do is not to soil the image nor smear the reputation of our motherland,” she advised.
She further appealed to media organisations, “including CNN, to respect our structures and contact established national agencies like the Ministry of Gender, Children & Social Protection, Ministry of Culture and Information when they are producing programmes on Gender and Social Issues in Ghana”.
Source: Gistville