Francisca Oteng-Mensah

FRANCISCA OTENG MENSAH

Francisca Oteng-Mensah (born 14 February 1993) is a member of parliament of the New Patriotic Party for the Kwabre East Constituency and was known as the youngest parliamentarian of the fourth republic of Ghana at the time of her election in 2016.

Quotes

• These victims are lured with the prospect of good jobs, education, or a chance to escape poverty
  • https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/tourism-entities-urged-to-support-human-trafficking-fight.html
• A committee has been set up to look into the matter, and because they are looking into issue, I may not be able to say much or comment further.
  • https://www.modernghana.com/news/1244058/bbcs-report-on-staged-child-trafficking-under.html
• I am more focused now than ever before to deliver on my mandate as the deputy minister for gender, I will continue to work towards the development and empowerment of women in Ghana, and I urge all Ghanaians to join me in this quest.
  • https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/CHRAJ-exoneration-will-only-propel-me-to-do-more-Dep-Minister-for-Gender-1721921
• We have to look at the financial and other material gains traffickers make from the exploitation of their victims. We can disrupt their activity through restraining and freezing their assets under the EOCO laws at an early stage of the investigation.
• Let me reinterpret this adage; if you spare the rod, you spoil a child,’ to reflect the fact that, if we identify the offenders without punishing them at the end of the day,
  • https://www.myjoyonline.com/gender-ministry-and-partners-engage-judges-against-human-trafficking/