The Women Rights Groups, the Affirmative Action Groups, the Women Lawyers Union, the Gender Activists, the Women Church Leaders, the Queen Mothers, the Girls’ Rights Protection Groups who I meet constantly at Civil Society Forums and Engagements most recent was at an EU Delegation workshop making forceful and fantastic propositions for the enhancement and protection of women’s rights but conspicuously losing their voice on the trauma and ordeal this Serwaa Broni has gone and is going through due to the actions of our President is not only disappointing but a smack of cowardice, hypocrisy and vile selectivity.
Maybe they are not women’s rights advocates, after all, maybe they are not as strong and vociferous as we think, maybe they don’t have as many balls as they made us believe or just may be they just don’t care about enhancing anyone’s rights but only interested in having a platform through which they can fight for their own survival and nothing else.
If out of the over 200 women’s rights CSOs in Ghana and the over 70 strong women who can be identified as Gender Activists here in Ghana, not a single one has shown any interest whatsoever in this Serwaa Broni issue since it broke and to date none of them have reached out or extended a hand of support and encouragement to this lady and asked just how they can help, no matter how much of a drop in the ocean it is then I’m sorry I don’t respect any so-called Gender Right Activist or CSO in Ghana anymore.
In fact, they don’t exist, what we have are a bunch of narcissistic frustrated women and women groups who only show up when there’s something to benefit from and conspicuously go into hiding when they are required to put their integrity on the line to fight for their fellow women who have suffered severe trauma due to the direct actions of persons in a position of power.
This is a testament to how deep the moral decay in our society is and I’m sorry I can’t hide my disappointments anymore!!