Presidential Advisor on HIV/AIDS, Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi has revealed that she never faced any form of economic hardship while growing up.
Speaking in an interview on Accra-based Asaase Radio, Dr. Mokowa Adu-Gyamfi indicated that her parents were well-to-do and thus, ensured that she and her siblings never lacked anything.
She said, even at a time most families were having tough times meeting their needs, they lived a luxurious life and had access to all basic facilities and were seen through the best schools in the country and later got established.
The riches, however, did not lead them astray as her parents instilled in them discipline and moral uprightness, she revealed.
Dr. Mokowa Adu-Gyamfi, who expressed gratitude to God for blessing her with such a privileged life, added that she barely opens up about her privileged life as she observed that society does not entertain such life stories.
“I have to be grateful to God. I have been blessed in life. My father was a lawyer, the first Nzema lawyer as everybody knows. Recently, he was celebrated. So it was a privilege, we didn’t have to go through any hardship. In those days, it was common for people to use the communal pipes for water but we had a pipe in our house. My father was the first person to have a WC in his house he built in Sekondi in those days.
People don’t like to hear such stories so normally we don’t even talk about it but those who grew up with us in Sekondi knew that we lived a privileged life but very well disciplined. Our parents taught us discipline, being respectful, using the right language and above all, be God fearing so those things underpinned my upbringing growing up,” she said.
Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi was among the first batch of medical doctors and the first 3 female medical doctors to be trained in Ghana.
She has since her completion in 1969 served the country in various capacities. She practiced as a healthcare provider both in and outside Ghana and was later appointed by former president John Agyekum Kufuor as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Sierra Leone.
She served as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Sierra Leone for 5 years and later as Director General of the Ghana AIDs Commission. She is currently serving as Presidential Advisor on HIV/AIDS under the Akufo-Addo’s administration.
