{"id":1003628,"date":"2022-02-25T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/speaker-bagbin-breaks-silence-on-adwoa-safos-absence-listen\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:20:30","slug":"speaker-bagbin-breaks-silence-on-adwoa-safos-absence-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/speaker-bagbin-breaks-silence-on-adwoa-safos-absence-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Bagbin breaks silence on Adwoa Safo&#8217;s absence [Listen]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"476\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1643239102_447_74309634.295-Copy-696x476.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Alban Bagbin is the Speaker of Parliament (Picture credit: Parliament House)\"\/><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1221730267&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has denied media reports claiming that he granted Adwoa Safo permission on health grounds, describing the report as fake news. <\/p>\n<p>He says he has received a number of calls from the media.<\/p>\n<p>He has never said it anywhere that he granted Dome Kwabenya MP permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome fake news going round claims I granted an interview to say that Adwoa Safo received permission from me to absent herself from Parliament on health grounds. I want it to be known by all, I have not granted any such decision anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the Speaker who determines who is present or absent, the votes and proceedings will capture those who are absent, present, and those who are absent with permission. I have not said any such thing anywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sack Adwoa Safo \u2013 Kojo Mpiani charges Akufo-Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m not aware Adwoa Safo wants my job \u2013 Afenyo-Markin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What special qualifications do you have to be made Deputy Majority Leader? \u2013 Kwadwo\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker Bagbin said he will address the issue of absentee MPs clearly for everyone to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Since Parliament resumed sittings this year, the Dome Kwabenya Member of Parliament (MP) has been in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Her absence is said to be seriously affecting the Majority side and its ability to do government business in the House, particularly the E-levy.<\/p>\n<p>As some want disciplinary measures to be taken against her immediately, others want the government to consider options, including expelling her from the party.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"sD-JMYhi-iI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UTAG Calls Off Strike: UTAG, Gov\u2019t begin negotiations on conditions of service \u2013 Adom TV (24-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sD-JMYhi-iI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has denied media reports claiming that he granted Adwoa Safo permission on health grounds, describing the report as fake news. He says he has received a number of calls from the media. He has never said it anywhere that he granted Dome Kwabenya MP permission. \u201cSome fake news going round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}