30/12/2025
Digital Organizer of Agona West Writes;
WHEN POWER CHANGES, MUST HUNGER CHANGE HANDS TOO?
Does the end of a presidential tenure and the looming defeat of a political party in Ghana mean that market women must also pay the price?
What crime did the market women of Agona West commit?
Was it selling tomatoes?
Was it waking before dawn to feed families?
Was it struggling daily under high prices and low profits?
Or was their only “offense” being ordinary citizens under an outgone NPP administration?
Why then are stories circulating of ₵200, ₵100, and ₵50 being demanded and collected from hardworking market women, all in the name of “change of government”?
Is change now a tax on poverty?
Is democracy now a receipt book carried to the market stall?
When leaders fear defeat, must the burden be shifted onto women who already carry the nation on their heads?
Market women are not political ATMs.
They are not party foot soldiers.
They are not compensation packages for failing leadership.
They vote with hope.
They trade with sweat.
They survive with dignity.
Any government NDC or otherwise, that allows the perception that political transitions are funded by coercion or intimidation of the poor has already failed the moral test of leadership.
Ghana’s democracy was not built on extortion.
Our markets are not battlegrounds.
Our women are not collateral damage.
If power is truly for the people, then the people must never be punished for a government’s desperation.
Let Agona West speak.
Let the market women be heard.
And let every political party remember:
When you lose the people, no amount of forced “contributions” can buy back legitimacy.
Merry Christmas to You All and Prosperous New Year 2026.