Otiko Afisa Djaba has come under sustained attack from National Democratic Congress MPs after she refused to apologise to ex-president John Mahama for describing him as "evil" and having the heart of the "devil."

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"That was a Minster sitting before us and assuring us that she will take care of the vulnerable and aged in society as well as women and children," MP for Tamale North ripped into her. "This is a woman who doesn’t even seem to have a good relationship with her mother, for us, we should be worried.”

He added: “If she cannot demonstrate her ability to contain her mother no matter how much of a difference exists between them, then you shouldn’t be hopeful that she will have any care of thoughts for any vulnerable person who is aged”.

MP for Tamale South and Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu noted that considering the ministry she is heading to, she has to show that she can forgive and draw people together and also, "have to demonstrate that with everything that happens she can forgive… [but] she did not show an incline of humility, respect for elders and that she can bring people together.”

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On this part, MP for Wa Central Rashid Pelpuo said she lacks compassion and humility.

“My surprise is that she is coming to occupy a ministry that demands a lot of compassion. She is going to occupy a ministry that demands a lot of humility, but she did not show any of these things when she was confronted with the question of insulting a former President," he said.

In our tradition, you don’t look in the face of the elderly and say; you are stupid, your head is big and you are evil; Nobody does that in our tradition,” he said.