You are the bae in Mahama’s government, Dr Joyce Bawa Mogtari

Presidents by themselves cannot govern effectively seeking to undertake every duty as that task can be daunting if not impossible.

There is an attraction for a female government appointee who has the academic qualifications, got the experience, a calm head, a good heart and is effortlessly lovely.

 

Some might have problems with my humble self, expressing great admiration for a lovely woman whose appearance let alone smile can enchant even a crude man barricaded in a cave.

President Rawlings had female government appointees in Mrs Rebecca Adotey (Transport & Communication) Deputy, Mrs Cecilia Johnson (Local Govt & Rural Development), Mrs Vida Yeboah (Tourism), Ms. Patience Addow (Eastern Region) and the delightful Mrs Esther Lily Nkansah (Western Region).

President Kufuor boasted of female deliverers Cecilia Ladze Bannermann (Minister for Mines), the Iron Lady Hawa Yakubu (Minister for Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City), Elizabeth Ohene (Minister of State -media relations), Christine Churcher (Minister of State for primary, secondary and girl-child education), Gladys Asmah (Minister for Fisheries), sweet Oboshie Sai-Cofie (Minister for Information and National Orientation), Gloria Akuffo (Minister for Aviation), Esther Obeng Dapaah (Minister for Lands, Forestry and Mines), enchanting Madam Patricia Appiagyei (Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister and first female Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly [KMA]) and the beloved Hajia Alima Mahama (Minister for Women and Children's Affairs).

President Mahama has female generals thanks to ally Hanna Tetteh (Minister for Foreign Affairs), confidant Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong (Attorney General and Minister for Justice), unyielding Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang (Minister for Education), veteran Hanny-Sherry Ayitey (Minister for Fisheries), sweet faced Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare (Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts), stylish Dzifa Aku Ativor (ex-Minister for Transport), in-shape Nana Oye Lithur (Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection) and in-luck Akua Sena Dansua (Minister for Tourism).

But it is the Deputy Minister of Transport, Mrs Joyce Bawa Mogtari who takes the biscuit in my estimation. Hailing from Kpembe and Bole, the ebony madam who until her appointment was the Head of the Legal Department and Solicitor Secretary of the Ghana Shippers Authority has gone about her duties diligently without fanfare yet earned praise and avoided scandal to derail her advancement.

Possessing a Master of Laws Degree in International Maritime Transport Law, Madam Joyce is an experienced Mediator and a member of the West African Women Lawyers Association, the Ghana Bar Association and a fellow of the USA-International Visitor Leadership Programme.

Naturally beautiful yet measured in speech, stylish yet not loud, well-proportioned body wise without excesses and bearing San tribe features of Southern Africa, there is little doubt that when it comes to visual appeal and effortless charm Madam Joyce Bawa Mogtari, the wife and mother of one is the bae in president Mahama’s government.