Ghana: Appoint Women Into Key Positions To Reduce Corruption – Minister

Alhaji Mohammed-Muniru Limuna

Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed-Muniru Limuna, has said appointing women to positions of trust can help to reduce corruption in the country. He said women by their nature, detested acts of corruption, therefore when put in positions of trust, would help fight corruption in the country.
Alhaji Limuna said this when he received a paper developed from the maiden Northern Regional Assembly Women’s Conference at his office in Tamale on Thursday. The position paper was developed by participants of the maiden Northern Regional Assembly Women’s Conference organized by NORSAAC, a non-governmental organization, with sponsorship from IBIS in Ghana, in Tamale a fortnight ago, to serve as a networking platform for the elected and appointed assembly women in the Region.

 Alhaji Limuna said women did not have the inordinate taste to amass wealth at all cost, and unlike their male counterparts, would also not waste money on frivolities such as buying expensive gifts for their concubines therefore sparing the public purse.

 He, therefore, advocated the need to appoint more women to decision making levels in society asking women to be willing to accept such appointments since the government was doing all it could to increase women’s representation at decision making levels. He was not happy that some districts in the Region failed to have more than one woman as assembly member and promised to audit the appointment to include more women.