Born into a family of lawyers and politicians, Nana Yaa Jantuah, a former General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has disclosed that her father discouraged her from pursuing journalism.
She says whilst her father and uncle disagreed on the right time for her to indulge in politics, she made the decision to study journalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, despite getting admission to pursue law.
The former Director of Public Affairs of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) says the father told her that journalism doesn’t pay and if that’s the path she had chosen, she will die a pauper.
Nana Yaa Jantuah was speaking at a Thought Leadership programme organised by Onua FM Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on the theme: Women in Politics and their Impact on Governance, when she made the revelation.
Despite the discouragement, she said she pursued the programme and ventured into public relations until her recent diversion into full time politics, having worked at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) after her exit from journalism school.
“My father and uncle always used to fight over the right time for my entry into politics. My father said the time was not ripe but my uncle insisted it was time. Although I got admission to study law, I chose to go GIJ and my father told me at the time I was going that: ‘You, you want to be a journalist, you will die as a pauper. There is no money in that profession you are doing’. So I started my life with GBC,” she narrated in Twi to the moderator, Nana Yaa Brefo Danso.
The programme also hosted Oheneyere Gifty Anti, a renowned broadcaster and Dzifa Gomashie, Member of Parliament for Ketu South.
