Minister for Gender, Women and Children’s Affairs, Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba has warned Lawyer Maurice Ampaw to redraw words he used on the ministry, referring to them as useless.

The Minister stated that, there is no woman who will ever call a minister ‘useless’ so she does not see why Lawyer Ampaw should refer to a whole ministry that seeks to protect women and children against harm as useless.

“How can he say the whole ministry and its staffs are useless. He has to retract that statement and apologize to all the people in this country because due to the statement he made, his own mother is inclusive. He also said that we don’t have policies for child welfare, I don’t know how ignorant he is but I want to tell him that, we have the child and family welfare policy, the children’s act, the juvenile justice policy, gender policy, the ending child marriage strategic plan, when it comes to policies, we have lots of them in this ministry. I attribute all to the good and hard work of my staffs. I’m surprised Maurice has been there all these year, since Former President Kufuor founded this ministry in 2001 and is now referring to us as useless or is it because I’m the minister now?” She said on Peace FM.

Reacting to the Minister, Lawyer Ampaw hit back again demanding an apology from the minister to rather retract her statement because he, [Lawyer Ampaw] has the authority to pass whatever comment about any government institution when issues are not properly dealt with.

“Where was she when I was fighting for Human Right issues? She has personalized the whole issue and acting as if the ministry is her property. I don’t recall referring to her as useless, nor calling her staffs as useless. I was raising an issue that, we have a ministry that takes care of women and children but everything that ministry stands for is getting out of hand, child abuse, child trafficking, child labor, kids are starving on the streets, child prostitution has become heartbreaking in this country. Even when people were against her hairstyle when she was on for the ministerial position, I stood up for her to defend her, she should search the internet. But if almost getting to two years everything is getting worse and she’s accusing me for passing a lose comment, I’m sorry to say that if she dares me, I’ll expose her.” He said.