Maame Dokono says goodbye to politics

Maame Dokono has said goodbye to politics. She made her decision known on Joy FM's Weekend City Show last Saturday, according to a Graphic Showbiz story.

Already, Maame Dokono's (a.k.a Grace Omaboe) decision is being hailed by a number of theatre lovers, many of whom are fans of her's, who believe that her decision to go into politics was a mistake from the very start.

Miss Grace Omaboe, the very popular actress and radio and television programmes hostess, has over the years won a great deal of admiration for her roles on stage, television and recently as a women's and children's rights activist.

Then last year, suddenly like a bombshell dropped from nowhere, she offered to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the National Democratic Congress party in the Birim North constituency.

She told Felix Vanderpallen, host of the Joy Weekend City Show, that she decided to go into politics because she realised that only a handful of women were into politics, especially as parliamentarians and she thought that was unacceptable since she believed women can best address the many problems that revolve around them and children.

When the host asked her why she is now saying goodbye to politics, she lamented: "Politics is in fact a dirty game" and narrated how she is now intimidated by some people in her area. Even in Accra, she said, she encounters unpleasant situations when people ridicule and hoot at her when sometimes they see her. "Some even go to the extent of insulting me," she told her host.