DWM ENJOYS SUPPORT — KONADU-AGYEMAN (PAGE 13, MAY 20, 2010)

The President of the December 31st Women’s Movement, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, has stated that the movement continues to enjoy the massive support of women because of its policy to empower women and unearth their potential to take their rightful place in society.
She said it was for that reason that it embarked on projects aimed at educating women to raise their income levels.
Speaking at the launch of the 28th anniversary of the movement at a rally at Esuehyia, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings said the movement did bid and win the Nsawam Cannery through its own company, CARRIDEM, by raising a loan.
It is being celebrated on the theme: The role of women in nation-building, and was attended by delegates from all the regions.
The former First Lady said the movement also sourced funds to establish a cocoa processing factory to raise funds for women.
She therefore described the charges of causing financial loss to the state preferred against her and some executive members of the movement as an attempt to stifle the operations and good intentions of the movement.
She said it was ironical that the movement won cases of impropriety against it only to be appealed against by the then government at the High Track Fast Court.
Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings said despite the attempt and blatant lies to discredit the movement would remain resolute and ever committed to chart the path it was intended for.
She said no amount of intimidation would make the movement deviate from its cause and advised women to rally solidly behind its success.
She said everything was on course to deliver on its policies and that the two companies would soon start operations to support the movement’s projects.
A former Minister in President Rawlings’s administration, Mr. Samuel Nuamah-Donkoh commended the movement for championing the cause of women.
Mr. Nuamah-Donkor said the movement continues to be stronger due to its immense support for the emancipation and empowerment of women and that it would forever be remembered by generations of Ghanaian women for its role in bringing them into the limelight.
He said even though women had potential that could be unearthed for national development, society had relegated them to the background in the past and prayed for God’s guidance for the founding member and all those who had brought the movement this far.
He asked women not to waver in their support for the movement to give them the needed push to enhance their contribution in nation-building.