Women advised not to stay in violent relationships

The Adentan Circuit Judge, Angela Aseye Attachie, has advised women not to stay in violent relationships, no matter the circumstances, even if it is due to economic instability on their part.

She said most women who stayed in such violent relationships lacked economic stability and, therefore, were always thinking of who would take care financially of their children or who would take care of them when they left the relationship.

Workshop

The Circuit Court Judge, Mrs Attachie, who is also the queen mother of the Asogli State in the Volta Region, with the stool name Mama Bobi III, gave the advice as a facilitator at a capacity-building workshop for queen mothers from the Volta, Oti and Eastern regions at Atimpoku in the Asuogyaman District last Tuesday.

Other co-facilitators were Vincent Frimpong Manu, the Executive President of Sustainability Global and Beatrice Mfoafo, the Critical Care Nurse Specialist in charge of the Cardiothoracic Unit of the 37 Military Hospital.  

The programme, which was organised by the queen mother of Adumasa in the Asuogyaman Traditional Area, Nana Afua Serwaa Ampafo Brakatu I, Organiser and Executive Director of Nana Serwaa Brakatu Humanitarian Endowment Foundation (NSBHEF) with sponsorship from the National Lottery Authority Good Causes Foundation was on the theme: “Enhancing women’s participation and representation in leadership and governance through chieftaincy and culture’’.    

Mrs Attachie urged the queen mothers and women, in general, to take on more leadership roles in their communities and in government to bring women into the limelight. 

Custodians

Mr Manu, for his part, said the queen mothers were custodians of culture and traditions which were important tools that promoted the development and transformation of the country and there was, therefore, the need to involve them as advocates who would promote good governance through mobilisation and the nurturing of women and girls in their various communities.

‘’You know our laws do not allow traditional leaders, including the queen mothers to participate in partisan politics, but in our localities, they can mobilise, especially the young girls to adopt certain civic activities and so we need the queen mothers and women to participate in governance at the local levels’’,  Mr  Manu added.

Earlier in a welcome address, the convener of the programme, Nana Serwaa Ampafo Brakatu, said women needed to know their rights and responsibilities and contribute their quota for societal development.