{"id":1166229,"date":"2022-08-04T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T12:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/ec-finally-speaks-on-adwoa-safos-seat\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T12:03:23","slug":"ec-finally-speaks-on-adwoa-safos-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/ec-finally-speaks-on-adwoa-safos-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"EC finally speaks on Adwoa Safo\u2019s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ean10E4X0AIfv36-Copy-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Mrs Sarah Adwoa Sarfo\" title=\"Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Mrs Sarah Adwoa Sarfo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has debunked arguments that it has the mandate to proceed with a by- election in the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency owing to the continuous absence of the embattled Member of Parliament for the area, Sarah Adwoa Safo.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu, last month urged the Clerk of Parliament to inform the EC that the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency seat is vacant.<\/p>\n<p>This, Mr Osei-Owusu says, is the conclusion reached by the Committee after it heard two of the three NPP legislators who had absented themselves from Parliament for more than 15 consecutive sittings.<\/p>\n<p>However, giving updates as to whether or not the EC has any of such notices, Dr Bossman Asare, Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Corporate Services said the \u201cEC has always been ready for by-elections because it is part of our mandate\u2026you mentioned Honorable Adwoa Safo, we followed the news like the ordinary Ghanaians also do and as we speak now we have not received any notification that a parliamentary seat is vacant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Asare added that, \u201cthe EC is an impartial institution so based on what the First Deputy Speaker said, that means if the Clerk hasn\u2019t notified us, the EC cannot jump the gun and say people are saying someone should resign so we are also joining the bandwagon.\u201d<\/p>\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\/1317406729&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/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=\"zAVu26BXcUU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nyanyano Sodomy Update: Court remands evangelist accused of crime into police custody (3-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAVu26BXcUU?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>Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo The Electoral Commission (EC) has debunked arguments that it has the mandate to proceed with a by- election in the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency owing to the continuous absence of the embattled Member of Parliament for the area, Sarah Adwoa Safo. Chairman of Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee, Joseph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7727,322,10981,7757,746],"class_list":["post-1166229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-adwoa","tag-finally","tag-safos","tag-seat","tag-speaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166229","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=1166229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}