Defend female ministers against media hounding – Mahama

President John Mahama has told women organisations in Ghana to be protective of women Ministers who get flayed by the media.

According to him, leaving female ministers to their fate during storms of media onslaught and assault against their person or office was not good enough.

“I think that we must maintain women solidarity. It’s not easy to step up to the plate into the limelight. It’s a very very difficult responsibility and you have a lot of media attention and things and sometimes women ministers come under attack and I don’t see women’s groups rising to their defence, they just leave them to themselves,” the president bemoaned.

He described as unhealthy, the situation where women groups watch aloof as their kind are devoured by the media.

“…These are a rare breed who are making a mark and if for a little slip they do, the media come down heavily on them and women groups just abandon them and leave them to themselves, I don’t think it’s a very healthy thing to do so that’s a feedback I’ll also give you”.

The president expressed the concerns when he met some women groups at the Flagstaff House on Monday.

His concerns follow a recent barrage of “media assault” on Deputy Communications Minister Victoria Hammah after she refused to read an unedited speech at a public event out of exasperation and frustration after she discovered, at the last hour, that her edited speech had been swapped with the unedited one.