Some Members of Parliament (MP) of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) cannot comprehend the behaviour and attitude displayed by the Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Ms. Sarah Adwoa Safo.
While some MPs share genuine concerns with her, others also think that she has betrayed her own party especially when they need her the more in other to bush government business through.
One of the MPs who has been hard on the Dome-Kwabenya MP was her former lover and babies father, MP for Assin Central, Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, describing her actions as gradually pushing the elephant party into opposition.
Speaking on Asaase Radio on Tuesday February 22, 2022, in responding to an accession from a Political Science Lecturer Dr. Richard Amoako Baah, that the NPP party has not treated the Dome-Kwabenya law maker fairly, Mr. Agyapong said Ms. Adwoa Safo has not been fair to the party.
Mr. Agyapong said “the Chief of Staff, Mrs. Frema Opare called me to her office and said now this is what she (Adwoa Safo) is saying so the later gave me GH¢120.000.00 which I personally deposited at her Fidelity Bank Accounts.”
“Please what do Amoako Baah know about the issue, he should give us a break,” he stated.
The vociferous Agyapong continued, “I put the money there, you can ask her personal assistant (PA).”
“The way she is acting towards the NPP, it is showing clearly that the party is in opposition and this must not be tolerated by the party,” he fumed.
However, MP for North Tongu Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the actions of Ms. Adwoa Safo is not different from that of Mr. Kennedy Agyapong and Mr. Henry Quartey, and that the NPP party must embrace themselves for three by-elections because the three MPs have absented themselves for 18 working days each without permission from the Speaker of Parliament.
According to the minority caucus in Parliament, they will ensure that the Privileges Committee questions the three NPP MPs for absenteeism.
He disclosed on his Facebook page on Tuesday, February 22, that an “unimpeachable assessment of the Votes and Proceedings of Parliament between October 26, 2021, and November 24, 2021” revealed that three lawmakers failed to obtain prior permission from Speaker Alban S.K. Bagbin before deserting Parliament for more than the 15 working days beyond which an MP cannot be absent from work.
He added that it will be unfair to sacrifice Ms. Adwoa Safo alone when others including Kennedy Agyapong who is the most vociferous on this matter are equally guilty of the same truancy.
“From a thorough and unimpeachable assessment of the Votes and Proceedings of Parliament — between October 26, 2021, and November 24, 2021; two NPP MPs: Ken Ohene Agyapong and Mr. Henry Quartey who is also Greater Accra Regional Minister were absent without permission from the Rt. Hon. Speaker, Alban S.K. Bagbin, for 18 working days each.
“I am therefore perplexed and wondering, in all sincerity, the basis for the discriminatory and unprincipled attacks on Sarah Adwoa Safo by our colleagues on the NPP side of the House, and particularly from Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong who is equally guilty of the same offence he’s been raving and ranting about.
“In all fairness, we expect and will also ensure that the Privileges Committee considers the matter of three absenting MPs and not one. Article 97 (1) (c) of the 1992 Constitution and Order 16 (1) of our Standing Orders must not and will not be applied selectively.
“Realistically, Ghanaians should be preparing for three by-elections in Assin Central, Ayawaso Central and Dome/Kwabenya,” Ablakwa wrote on Facebook.
