Kayayei’s were being pressured by their husbands to come back home

 
 
National President for the female head porters (Kayayei) Association, Hajia Adziza Dagomba, has revealed that most of the head porters who were trying to travel to Walewale were only obeying orders from their husbands.
Atinka News’ on Monday reported that two drivers transporting head Porters (Kayayeis) to Walewale in the Northern Region in cargo trucks were apprehended at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region.
According to reports, the driver of the cargo truck had concealed the people he was transporting at the back of the truck in order to evade the president’s imposition of a 14 day restriction in Accra, Tema and Kumasi.
An eyewitness, Prophet Abdulia Salia, who spoke to Atinka News said the first truck had 35 passengers with 13 pregnant women.
The second truck had over fifty (50) passengers with thirty (30) of them carrying kids and luggage ready to evade the lockdown.
These head porters were fleeing after the President declared a two-week lockdown in Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Kasoa as part of government’s efforts to contain, and stop the spread of coronavirus in Ghana.
Speaking in an interview, National President for female head porters (Kayayei) Association, Hajia Adziza Dagomba noted that executives of the association had spoken with these Kayayees after the President’s declaration and had given them an assurance that they will be housed.
According to her, she was disappointed to hear in the news that the people she had spoken to were fleeing Accra and had been apprehended by authorities.
“I went to the Arts Center where they had been kept only to be told that their husbands were mounting pressure on them to come back home due to the ban. I was shocked to bits, I don’t know if their husbands have placed them under spells or its love. These women work so hard and their husbands sit somewhere and dictate to them how they should spend their monies,” she said.
Hajia Adziza Dagomba revealed that these men who were forcing the women to come do not care about the welfare of these women and that they are only interested in the monies these women make.
 
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