Create a "Ministry of Men" - Kade MP

Mr Ofosu Asamoah, NPP-Kade, on Thursday called for the establishment of a Ministry for Men to check the seemingly reversed discrimination in society.

He lauded the Women and Children Ministry for its work so far but said it would not be long when men would be at the receiving end of bitter societal activities. The member was contributing to a debate for the approval of 2002 budgetary estimates for the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.

Mr Asamuah, a lawyer and one of the youngest members of the House, suggested a Men and Juvenile (boys) Unit (MAJU) with the Police Service to aid men, who are battered by women but due to fear of being stigmatised cry themselves to sleep.

He said the existing Women and Juvenile Unit (WAJU) of the Police Service normally tended to be more sympathetic to women. Mr Kwakye Addo, NDC- Afram Plains, challenged the member's assertion saying that he was being unfair to WAJU.

Mr Asamuah retorted; "if the member have had any experience there he would have supported my request." He said society should not assume that all was well with the boys when he had his own peculiar problems.