Women Empowerment(Video): Let’s Encourage And Push Women To Take Up Positions – Coordinating Director Appeals

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The coordinating director for Abuakwa South municipal assembly, Mrs Vera Akuffo-Mante has passionately appealed to the general public and especially the men in the country to support women, encourage them and push them to take up positions of national interest.

According to Mrs Vera Akuffo-Mante, there are a few female in governance especially in her municipal but she believes supporting more female in governance would help develop the country very well.

She made the appeal through Radio1 team when they paid a visit to her in her office to surprise her with a birthday cake on her birthday.

“We had one female Assembly member when the municipality wasn’t divided. But now that it is divided, we don’t have any female assembly member here until government’s appointees. We will appeal to the men to help the women since women are more than them and because they can’t stand insults and negative tags, they give away the positions” – Mrs Vera Akuffo-Mante revealed.

When asked by the team as to what to do in order to improve the number of female assembly members, she made the passionate appeal to men to help them.

“Women don’t get the encouragement from family members and their spouses to go into politics because they think they would be multreated in the contest. Our men too mount the podium to sometimes discourage and say negatives about the women but women are too emotional and if they can’t stand the intimidation, they stop and give it all to the men. So we will appeal to our dear men to push us” – Mrs Vera Akuffo-Mante appeals.

Mrs Vera Akuffo-Mante is one of the finest coordinating directors in the region, very hardworking, easy to work with and very keen about her work.

By:Radio1News|Ghana|Obido Nana Gyasi