{"id":1180585,"date":"2022-08-16T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/16\/my-withdrawal-as-gender-minister-will-allow-me-to-do-my-parliamentary-responsibilities-adwoa-safo\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T22:25:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:25:09","slug":"my-withdrawal-as-gender-minister-will-allow-me-to-do-my-parliamentary-responsibilities-adwoa-safo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/16\/my-withdrawal-as-gender-minister-will-allow-me-to-do-my-parliamentary-responsibilities-adwoa-safo\/","title":{"rendered":"My withdrawal as Gender Minister will allow me to do my parliamentary responsibilities -Adwoa Safo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/a1183d2f07674febb7efdfde891c5697\"\/>Sarah Adwoa Safo has indicated her acceptance weeks after her position as Gender Minister was terminated. The Dome-Kwabenya legislator believes the change will allow her to focus more on her constituents&#8217; developmental needs.<\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament was relieved of her ministerial role after being absent from the country for nearly a year, prompting critics to call for her dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, the President decided to respond to these calls after Parliament also tabled a verdict about her eligibility to serve as a representative of her constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Safo, on the other hand, sees a silver lining in her situation. The MP claims she is &#8220;aware of my responsibilities to the 75,000 constituents who voted me&#8230;&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9e89cd4f980f48009fca6d7fc8b0ec8a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>..this outcome is timely and will provide me more time to focus on my Parliamentary obligations and Constituency interactions, as well as cement the advances we have made as a government at the Constituency level in our effort to break the eight,&#8221; the August 5 statement stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to Madam Sarah Adwoa Safo, the President has been understanding of her situation. As a result, Madam Safo has stated that she will be eternally grateful to President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am eternally thankful for your patience, compassion, and unwavering devotion over the past year, especially during a tough period for me when I had to be away from the office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your generous assistance has been very much appreciated, and for that, I will be eternally thankful,&#8221; she stated in a letter to the Presidency that was leaked.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Bronzeman (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nDome-Kwabenya<br \/>\nSarah Adwoa Safo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Adwoa Safo has indicated her acceptance weeks after her position as Gender Minister was terminated. The Dome-Kwabenya legislator believes the change will allow her to focus more on her constituents&#8217; developmental needs. The Member of Parliament was relieved of her ministerial role after being absent from the country for nearly a year, prompting critics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7727,5953,1223,2101,15017,7729,6840],"class_list":["post-1180585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-adwoa","tag-gender","tag-minister","tag-parliamentary","tag-responsibilities","tag-safo","tag-withdrawal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180585","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=1180585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}