The Minister for Gender and Social protection Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba has for the first time admitted she is not in talking terms with her biological mother.

Otiko’s relationship with her mother was a major issue during her vetting by the appointments committee of parliament but she has disclosed that former Deputy Transport Minister Joyce Bawa-Mogtari who is her sister and her ‘cohorts’ are to blame for the strained relationship with her mother.

She disclosed that the former deputy minister and now special assistant to former President John Dramani Mahama instigated her being booted out of her mother’s home in Bole,

“Strangers went and removed my things, so, I called my mum and I told her that: ‘You’ve evicted me from your house, you’ve evicted me from your life.’ And she apologised for allowing that to happen without my knowledge. So people out there, you don’t know my story, so, don’t use politics to go there,” Ms Djaba told Kwadwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong (KABA) on Asempa FM.

“I have the right to do whatever I want to do in the area of my mother,” explaining: “A week to the elections, my sister, then-Deputy Minister of Transport Joyce Bawa-Mogtari and spokesperson for the John Mahama campaign, evicted me from my mother’s house in Bole.

“I wouldn’t have brought this up had the NDC not been pestering me about my relationship with my mother. They packed all my things from my mother’s house, so, people must know my story before they get up and be asking me about my relationship with my mother.

“It was all politics, but they claimed they were going to renovate the house, and, so, needed to move my things, but I’m the first born, so, I deserve to be pre-informed about such a thing but nothing was told me. I had so many things in my mother’s house, so I told them to wait till I come over or till I send my child over to pack them out, but they paid no heed.”