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The Privileges Committee of\u00a0Parliament\u00a0has summoned publicly\u00a0Sarah Adwoa Safo, Dome Kwabenya MP, to appear before the committee on Wednesday, July 6, 2022.<\/p>\n
According to a press release issued by the\u00a0Parliamentary Service and signed by the Director of Public Affairs, Kate Addo, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection failed to honour all invitations to appear before the Committee after the Speaker\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n
The fresh summons is to be published in \u201call relevant media\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis comes after all attempts to reach Honorable Member by the Committee failed,\u201d parts of the summons read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe summons from part of the Committee\u2019s work, referred to by the Speaker, Rt. Hon Alban Bagbin, pursuant to Article 97(1)(C) of the Constitution and Orders 15 and 16(1) of the Standing Orders of\u00a0Parliament, for consideration and report to the House, on the absence of the Member from\u00a0Parliament\u00a0for more than fifteen sittings, without permission in writing of the Speaker during the First Meeting of the Second Session of the Eight\u00a0Parliament\u00a0of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Committee has employed all available means, both official and unofficial to serve the Member with an invitation letter, sending the invitation letter to her office and pigeonhole in\u00a0Parliament, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, where she superintended as the Sector Minister, her official email addresses, known social media handles and through her Personal Assistant,\u201d the statement read further.<\/p>\n
The four-time MP has been given the option to honour the invitation via Zoom, a platform she recently broke her silence on in a media interview with Accra-based Joy News.<\/p>\n
The summons form part of the work of the Privileges Committee after Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin referred the issue of the absence of some three Members for more than 15 sittings in the First Meeting of the Second Session of the Eighth\u00a0Parliament\u00a0without prior permission in writing.<\/p>\n
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