{"id":1184187,"date":"2022-08-19T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/adwoa-safo-returns-to-parliament-in-october\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:06:00","slug":"adwoa-safo-returns-to-parliament-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/adwoa-safo-returns-to-parliament-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Adwoa Safo Returns To Parliament In October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Special Assistant to the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, Nana Dubin has indicated that the lawmaker will resume parliamentary duties when the law-making body resumes from recess.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Aide, the MP is ready for the outcome of Parliament\u2019s inquiry into her long absence from the house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya will be present after Parliament\u2019s recess and will take any decision the Speaker of Parliament gives in good stride,\u201d Nana Dubin said.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker, Alban SK Bagbin deferred his ruling on the matter after the Privileges Committee presented its report to the house.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament is on recess and is expected to reconvene in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Adwoa Safo is among three members of Parliament who were called before the Privileges Committee for being absent from parliamentary duties, without any reasons, beyond the permissible period.<\/p>\n<p>Though the other members Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central and Henry Quartey, MP for Ayawaso Central, appeared before the committee, the Dome-Kwabenya legislator failed to appear.<\/p>\n<p>She attributed her long absence from Parliament to family issues, saying, among others, that her son was unwell.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo recently sacked her as Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Assistant to the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, Nana Dubin has indicated that the lawmaker will resume parliamentary duties when the law-making body resumes from recess. According to the Aide, the MP is ready for the outcome of Parliament\u2019s inquiry into her long absence from the house. \u201cThe Member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7727,14879,2073,60,7729],"class_list":["post-1184187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-adwoa","tag-october","tag-parliament","tag-returns","tag-safo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184187","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=1184187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}