Oye Lithur has “serious inferiority complex” – Owusu Bempah

NDP Firebrand, Ernest Owusu Bempah, has launched a caustic attack on the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, for her recent outburst on one of her deputies and the director of social welfare.

Nana Oye Lithur was reported to have issued arrest threats to her deputy, Ms Rachel Florence Appoh and Christian Babooroh of the Social Welfare.

The Minister, who according to sources could not exercise restraint in her emotion, asked the two officials to produce an 18-month-old baby girl who was given to some foster parents after finding out that her mother was mentally deranged.

She authorized them to return the baby within 24 hours a couple of days ago, else face her unbridled wrath.

Following the incident, several political figures raised their voices against the Minister, condemning her act.

Adding his voice to the numerous criticisms, the Deputy Communications Director of the National Democratic Party, Ernest Owusu Bempah believes Nana Oye Lithur is a "bully."

According to him, the Minister's conduct cannot be justified since she had the option to amicably resolve the conflict.

To him, the Minister seems to have an "attitudinal problem" and so, wondered why she was given the nod to head her ministerial office.

Expounding further, Owusu Bempah posited that there is no way the two top officials would bicker, “unless that person who is in charge is a bully, unaccommodating. She has attitudinal problem. She has serious inferiority complex. Apart from them, this will not happen. So, Nana Oye Lithur is not fit to be a Gender Activist. She has disgrace herself on that score.”

He therefore warned her, on Oman FM’s political analysis programme, to note that anytime she puts up such behaviour; she opens "the floodgate for people to attack you personally. Because gender protection is gender protection” stressing that, the misconduct by the Minister is an “embarrassment to the government. It’s an embarrassment to the President one time. Because at the end of the day, it tells you that (H.E) John Mahama’s decision that he wrote in his first Coup d’état that danger lurks around any life decision he’s taken is true.”