Bugri Naabu clashes with Otiko over school feeding appointment (audio)

There was confusion at a meeting called by the Minister of Gender and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba in Tamale on Friday to introduce a new northern regional coordinator of the Ghana School Programme.

Ms Djaba had gathered caterers under the school feeding programme to introduce the new coordinator to them.

But some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), led by the regional chairman, Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu who felt this were not being done properly scattered the meeting.

Some NPP women's activists who were in disagreement over the Minister's choice stormed the meeting venue to disrupt it.

Mr. Daniel Bugri Naabu, who was not equally enthused about the behaviour of the Gender Minister stormed the venue to stop the meeting.

Madam Djaba, said to have felt threatened by the chaotic scenes at the venue and the anger of the women called in armed policemen and military personnel to calm the situation.

The women who were visibly angry, heckled and hurled unprintable insults on the minister.

Mr. Naabu who was also visibly angry about the behaviour the Gender Minister told journalists Madam Djaba has no right to come to the region to hold a meeting without the notice of the Regional chairman and the executives.

Listen to him here {mp3}bugri_naabu_stops_otiko_meeting{/mp3}

"Even the President cannot come to the region without informing the regional chairman and his executives for his intention of coming to the region,” he said.

He noted that the Minister has no right to appoint a regional coordinator and that as far as he was concerned, the position has been given to one Felicia.

He urged the women to calm down and that efforts were being made to ensure peace that the right person was appointed.

The Gender Minister also said she was in the region to meet the women organisers of the party to mark the international midwifery day and also to discuss how they can forge ahead in unity as women's group.