Mrs Vivian Kakie Tetteh, Progressive People's Party (PPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Sunyani East, has observed that threats and frustrations from activists of other political parties are the challenges that prevent women from participating in politics.
Mrs Tetteh, a teacher told the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Sunyani that women must be accepted into politics to enable them to contribute their quota in national development to ensure gender balance.
She said since she decided to contest the Sunyani East parliamentary seat, her life had been in danger because "she always noticed strange vehicles and people trailing her to monitor her movements".
She said her house and garage had been broken into on two occasions and had some of her personal belongings tampered with as well as her vehicle.
Mrs Tetteh alleged that Mr Samuel Akurugu, an Executive Committee member of the party in the constituency, whom he had been working with suffered in the hands of these miscreants who succeeded in taking away a motor bike belonging to the party, a laptop, pen drives and other personal belongings.
She said the matter had been reported to the police but so far the party had not made any head way.
Mrs Tetteh said politics was not about attacking opponents.
She explained that she ventured into politics because she was committed to the welfare and development of the people in her constituency.
She noted that some people in the constituency depend on water from a stream because a borehole serving the area had broken down.
Mrs Tetteh listed her priority areas as health, education and sanitation as well as the establishment of an educational endowment fund to assist the needy but brilliant children to get the opportunity to be in school.
She observed that sanitation in the constituency is poor and needs to be improved to check the outbreak of diarrhoea and other communicable diseases.
She pledged to collaborate with farmers in the constituency to get access to loans to increase food production.
Mrs Tetteh expressed the hope that she would be given the nod as the only female candidate to get the opportunity represent the constituency.
"This will give me an opportunity to participate in the legislature to enact laws that will be beneficial to Ghanaians and especially the people in the constituency," she explained.