{"id":1101394,"date":"2022-05-27T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/27\/adwoa-safos-heartwarming-message-to-her-constituents-after-her-long-absence\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:56:20","slug":"adwoa-safos-heartwarming-message-to-her-constituents-after-her-long-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/27\/adwoa-safos-heartwarming-message-to-her-constituents-after-her-long-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Adwoa Safo\u2019s heartwarming message to her constituents after her long absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"463\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Adwoa-1-696x463.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Adwoa Safo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Adwoa Safo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo has sent a heartwarming message to her constituents following her long absence from her official duties as MP for the Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u201cmother of the constituency\u201d, she still has her people at heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say I still love them and still have them close to my heart. I still want to lead, I still want to serve, and I still want to be the mother of the Constituency that I\u2019ve always been,\u201d she told the host of\u00a0<strong>JoyNews\u2019 The Pulse,\u00a0<\/strong>Bless Sogah in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The Lawyer, who noted that she had not deliberately abandoned her duties explained that her absence is because her son is unwell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"pwZ4_1ze7m0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exclusive: Adwoa Safo speaks on family, NPP, absence from Parliament\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pwZ4_1ze7m0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI am not intentionally abandoning my duties and responsibilities. I\u2019ve served the people of Ghana for twelve years and I have done it and there has not been any past record of me absenting myself like this,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [constituents] know me better than anybody and they should remember that and my son will be forever grateful to them for giving me time off to take care of him when he needed me most,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the MP was expected to appear before the Privileges Committee on May 27 for her 15-day absence from Parliament without the Speaker\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>But the MP in an exclusive interview with Joy News, Thursday, disclosed that she has not been served any notice to appear before Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Gender Minister said the first time she heard about the meeting was through her interview on the channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we speak I don\u2019t know that I have been invited. I have to be served. I am not aware any such thing has been given to me. I am just hearing it from you,\u201d she said.<\/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=\"MWK9M3LWquk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grace Gift herbal Clinic And Laboratory Services - Badwam Afisem on Adom TV (27-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWK9M3LWquk?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>Sarah Adwoa Safo Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo has sent a heartwarming message to her constituents following her long absence from her official duties as MP for the Constituency. According to the \u201cmother of the constituency\u201d, she still has her people at heart. \u201cI want to say I still love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1101396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9235,7727,1716,4963,2406,2951,10981],"class_list":["post-1101394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-absence","tag-adwoa","tag-constituents","tag-heartwarming","tag-long","tag-message","tag-safos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101394","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=1101394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}