{"id":1163130,"date":"2022-08-01T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/01\/how-speaker-bagbin-consulted-the-old-lady-on-adwoa-safos-fate\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:31:28","slug":"how-speaker-bagbin-consulted-the-old-lady-on-adwoa-safos-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/01\/how-speaker-bagbin-consulted-the-old-lady-on-adwoa-safos-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"How Speaker Bagbin consulted the &#8216;old lady&#8217; on Adwoa Safo\u2019s fate"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/74309634.295-Copy-696x476.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Alban Bagbin is the Speaker of Parliament (Picture credit: Parliament House)\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has deferred the decision on the fate of Sarah Adwoa Safo and two other legislators referred to the Privileges Committee for absenteeism.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker took a two-minute break to seek consultation on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>This was after the House came to a dead-end on whether or not to declare the seat of madam Safo, Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya, vacant or not.<\/p>\n<p>On his return, Mr Bagin, having earlier stated the importance of this decision by parliament, refrained from delivering a judgment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have consulted the old lady. The old lady has given me an advice and I think that advice is clear because the issues raised by the Majority Leader are both substantive and procedural law and I need time to submit to this House a reasoned, written ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot in the haste of today, give you the ruling. In the circumstances, I\u2019d urge this House for us to call it a day,\u201d he said.<\/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=\"4_fB2rmuXzc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPP @ 30: Party executives ready to support government to manage economy \u2013 Adom TV News (29-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_fB2rmuXzc?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 deferred the decision on the fate of Sarah Adwoa Safo and two other legislators referred to the Privileges Committee for absenteeism. The Speaker took a two-minute break to seek consultation on the issue. This was after the House came to a dead-end on whether or not to declare the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7727,3456,9614,12104,571,10981,4986],"class_list":{"0":"post-1163130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-adwoa","9":"tag-bagbin","10":"tag-consulted","11":"tag-fate","12":"tag-lady","13":"tag-safos","14":"tag-speaker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163130","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=1163130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163130\/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=1163130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}