[ 2015-03-30 ]

"I don't solicit sex"; stop calling me a prostitute – Nana Yaa Jantuah
“I’m not a prostitute,” the director of
public relations and external affairs of the
Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has
disclaimed in an interview with Morning Starr’s
Kafui Dey on Starr 103.5FM.

Ms Jantuah, who has been the face of the PURC as
far as explaining issues concerning poor power
supply are concerned, has been the butt of public
anger in recent times after the Commission
announced hikes in electricity and water tariffs
despite a worsening power crisis that has
necessitated a load shedding exercise.

“I heard people said that I am wicked, I am a
prostitute…they say it on social media…[it
makes me feel] bad,” she complained.

She said the constant abuse has made her
contemplate resigning on several occasions but was
stopped by her boss each time.


“Maybe when the time comes, I’ll resign,”
she said. “I wish I could just pick my bag one
day and say I’m gone, seriously. [I’ve given
it serious thought]. Last night I was thinking
about: ‘Why don’t I leave’.

“I was taught by my father [F A Jantuah, who
served in the Nkrumah government] to do what is
right and if I decide to take up a responsibility,
I have to do it to the fullest at the time that
I’m still there and when the time comes for me
to leave then I’m gone.

“Ask my boss how many times haven’t I said
I’m leaving. Because you see some of the things
and [they] hit you: that somebody will say that
you are a prostitute and a prostitute is somebody
who solicits for sex openly and I don’t solicit
for sex, I don’t do that and you find somebody
you are older than just insulting you and talking
to you anyhow. I’m getting to 50, but you get
somebody [as young as] 24…[talking to you
anyhow]. And that’s somebody I could give birth
to,” she bemoaned.

“I’ll tell you a story: I was praying in
church and somebody saw me and the person said he
stopped praying and was looking at me to make sure
it’s me. So when we finished he walked up to me
and said: ‘Is that you?’ I said: ‘Why?’ He
said: ‘You pray?’ I said: ‘Yes I’m a human
being. I pray…I’m just doing a job and I do it
to the best of my ability…some people say I’m
a disgrace, some people say I’m not a good
Christian, but Kafui if you’re given a job, you
do it to the best of your ability.”

Source - Starrfmonline

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