Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah, the 2nd Deputy Minority Whip in Parliament, recently criticized Majority Leader, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, for his remarks targeting older women.

During a parliamentary session, Afenyo-Markin used a proverbial adage, in jest, to counter a protest from Minority Chief Whip Kwame Governs Agbodza.

“Mr. Speaker, there is this saying 'that when dry bones are mentioned, Mr. Speaker's old women get so worried and palpitation,'” he said.

Afenyo-Markin’s proverbial comment reportedly came after former Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, asked the Minister for Labour and Employment if this was the first time the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) had sold some of its assets to other entities.

This remark drew a reaction from Comfort Doyoe, who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Ada.

She argued against age being used as a basis for criticism, particularly pointing out the discrepancy in how aging men and women are treated.

Doyoe emphasized that while Ghana's current president is over 80 years old, age has not been used against him by women in political discourse.

"Mr. Speaker, tell the Majority Leader to withdraw that statement about old women because when men are old, we don’t attack them. We were here when we had a president who was over eighty years and no woman has attacked him. So, he should stop attacking women because they are aging. If women are aging it is not a crime. Like the way men are aging and it is not a crime.

“Mr. Speaker, they should stop the attack on women. Especially when you clock 40, then they start attacking you, meanwhile, the men who are attacking us that we are old cannot do all night long.

“Mr. Speaker, they cannot do all night long because they are also old and they are hiding it,” the Ada MP stressed.

SSNIT Hotels Sale: You attack women that are old but you cannot do all night long - Deputy Minority Whip. #JoyNews pic.twitter.com/ZV5jgd1gZD

— JoyNews (@JoyNewsOnTV) July 11, 2024