{"id":1136609,"date":"2022-06-28T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/adwoa-safos-absence-oppong-nkrumah-speaks\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:53:54","slug":"adwoa-safos-absence-oppong-nkrumah-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/28\/adwoa-safos-absence-oppong-nkrumah-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Adwoa Safo\u2019s absence: Oppong Nkrumah speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/4039966315082_8995989518602.jpg\"   alt=\"Sarah Adwoa Safo\" title=\"Sarah Adwoa Safo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Sarah Adwoa Safo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said the Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo, is on an extended leave.<\/p>\n<p>He made this known on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen<\/strong> show Monday when asked if madam Safo is still a minister in the NPP government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy understanding is that she is on extended leave and that is the last statement we all got, I am sure you also read that statement. We don\u2019t have any communication on her for now,\u201d he told show host Osei Bonsu.<\/p>\n<p>On October 6, 2021, President Akufo-Addo extended the leave of absence from office for the Gender Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The Dome-Kwabenya MP\u2019s leave, which she sought for personal reasons, was supposed to have ended on August 31, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Procurement Minister could not resume and requested an extension. It did not, however, state when she will resume.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, she is expected to appear before Members of the Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee on July 6, either in person or via video conferencing platform Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>This is after several attempts to reach her proved futile.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to answer questions about her continuous absence from parliamentary duties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/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=\"iQQEA0i8BvQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arise Ghana Demo Turns Chaotic, Police Use Water Canons to Disperse Crowd (28-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iQQEA0i8BvQ?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 The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said the Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo, is on an extended leave. He made this known on Asempa FM\u2019s Ekosii Sen show Monday when asked if madam Safo is still a minister in the NPP government. \u201cMy understanding is that she is on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9235,7727,5359,6421,10981,746],"class_list":{"0":"post-1136609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-absence","9":"tag-adwoa","10":"tag-nkrumah","11":"tag-oppong","12":"tag-safos","13":"tag-speaks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136609","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=1136609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}