The National Women\u2019s Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Afrisah Djabah has described as a threat to fathers government\u2019s decision to borrow money to buy among other things sanitary pads for female students.<\/p>\n
According to her the decision will offend fathers who cannot provide sanitary pads for their daughters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich father will want to be told he cannot buy sanitary pads for their girl child and that government has gone for a loan for that, you are disgracing the fathers,\u201d she intimated.<\/p>\n
She questioned the research which revealed that girls drop out of school due to lack of sanitary pads.<\/p>\n
According to her poverty is the main reason why girls stay out of school. \u201cI understand that some research people came from Oxford to do that I am very\u00a0 sure that was not the main reason\u2026 I am also a researcher and I have worked in the North for twelve years, the main reason is poverty and not sanitary pads\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with Citi News<\/b>, madam Afisah<\/span> Djabah is of the opinion that reducing poverty by setting up income generating activities instead of sharing sanitary pads is the best way to keep girls in school.<\/p>\n The Gender advocate is therefore asking government<\/span> to withdraw the policy and apologize for what she considers to be an insult and an embarrassment to the Ghanaians.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it is a very insensitive policy that the government is bringing, this is contrary to our culture and to our sensibilities as well, it is extremely insensitive and on behalf of all women I call on government<\/span> to apologize and withdraw\u201d. She stressed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Raymond Acquah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Women\u2019s Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Afrisah Djabah has described as a threat to fathers government\u2019s decision to borrow money to buy among other things sanitary pads for female students. According to her the decision will offend fathers who cannot provide sanitary pads for their daughters. \u201cWhich father will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[17],"yoast_head":"\n