Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF), a non-governmental organization (NGO), has called on President Akufo-Addo to involve more women in his government as promised in the party’s 2016 manifesto.<\/p>\n
Out of the 36 ministerial appointments currently made by the President, only 9 women have been given positions in the new administration, a situation WILDAF considers unacceptable.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Board Member of WILDAF, Magdalene Kannae, \u00a0asked President Nana Addo to deliver on his promise to ensure 30 percent of his appointees are women.<\/p>\n \u201cOnly 9 women have been nominated to occupy ministerial positions out of a total of 36 which represents just 25 percent. \u00a0This falls short of the international, regional and national standards as well as the New Patriotic Party\u2019s own provision of minimum threshold of 30 percent women\u2019s representation in its 2016 manifesto.”<\/p>\n \u201cThe available data indicates that, Ghana has not achieved beyond 23.4 percent of women\u2019s representation in all public and political appointments since independence. If the current trend of appointment continues, Ghana is not likely to achieve even the minimum threshold of women\u2019s representation in the next 50 years. The NPP government should fulfill its social development agenda provision in\u00a0their 2016 manifesto of having at least 30 percent women in public office.\u201d<\/p>\n Make women leaders to reduce corruption \u2013 GII<\/strong><\/p>\n The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) had earlier asked government to increase the number of women in critical positions to curb corruption.<\/p>\n According to GII, results from a research they conducted showed that men in leadership position would turn out to be more corrupt than women in similar positions<\/p>\n The report indicated that \u201ca total of 498 respondents (81.5%) felt that there would be more likely less corruption if more women were put into positions of responsibility.\u201d –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
\n\u201cSimilarly, 61.2% of the respondents felt that a person likely to bribe another person is generally a man than a woman,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n
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