The President, John Dramani Mamaha has appointed Shamima Muslim as the Deputy Spokesperson to the President.
She will assist Felix Kwakye Ofosu as the Spokesperson to the President.
Her appointment was part of key appointments made to the Presidency, reflecting the President’s commitment to effective leadership and responsive administration.
Shamima Muslim is a Broadcaster who recently switched to politics.
Aside from her communication skills, she is also a Gender Activist and Convenor for the Alliance for Women in Media Africa(AWMA).
As a Broadcast Journalist, Shamima Muslim is expected to bring a wealth of experience to her new role at the Presidency.
She was one of the moderators of Ghana’s 2012 Vice-Presidential Debate and she was also selected as a pioneer representative of Ghana at President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative in 2010.
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As a Gender Activist, Shamima Muslim has been a Member and Ambassador for numerous initiatives, including the Ghana Right to Information Coalition, the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, and UN-Youth Ghana, championing the Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality.
Again, She has worked on projects funded by organisations such as the EU, USAID, DFID, and the Commonwealth Foundation.
She was one of the few women who were given the platform to speak when the Former Vice President of the United States of America (USA), Kamala Harris delivered a keynote address at the Black Stars Square when she visited Ghana in 2023.
In recent times, Shamima Muslim explained why she switched from journalism to politics, saying she was not forced into it.
According to her, the move was personal and driven by the need to increase women’s participation in Ghanaian politics.
“The decision to go into politics was not forced on me and perhaps from my history, my family and where I am currently, I could still be active behind the scenes. There are a lot of people who support political parties behind the scenes, but I wasn’t going to use a media platform to execute the political agenda of any political party whether that party was traditionally my preference in terms of ideology and some other considerations. I wasn’t going to do that,” she said.
She added that,”I am glad that I was able to do a very professional job that people today can say that yes you did execute your job professionally guided by the ethics of the profession and we wouldn’t even have known that you had any sympathies whatsoever for the NDC. I am happy about that.”
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