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Adwoa Safo<\/strong><\/p>\n The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K Bagbin, has granted permission for a report from the Privileges Committee on three absentee Members of Parliament including Sarah Adwoa Safo to be tabled before the house for discussion.<\/p>\n The Speaker ruled that the privileges Committee\u2019s report on the three absentee MPs could not be accepted as the final decision on the matter but should be subjected to a vote on the floor of the house.<\/p>\n This comes after Mr. Bagbin, on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, dismissed attempts for the Speaker to declare some of the seats vacant without a formal debate of the Privileges Committee\u2019s report. However, in his ruling, Mr Bagbin said, \u201cthe preliminary objection for the admissibility of the report is hereby dismissed in limine.\u201d<\/p>\n The three members \u2013 Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central, Henry Quartey, MP for Ayawaso West, and Sarah Adwoa Safo, MP for Dome Kwabenya \u2013 were referred to the Privileges Committee for absenting themselves from Parliament beyond the permissible period without any reason.<\/p>\n While Kennedy Agyapong and Henry Quartey appeared before the committee and attributed their absence to ill health, Adwoa Safo failed to honour the summons.<\/p>\n She attributed her long absence from Parliament to family issues, saying, among other things, that her son was unwell.<\/p>\n Adwoa Safo was subsequently sacked by the President from her portfolio as Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection.<\/p>\n Prior to Parliament\u2019s recess in July 2022, the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu had, among other things, insisted that the Privileges Committee\u2019s report should not be subject to debate in the House but the speaker however rejected the Majority Leader\u2019s call.<\/p>\n Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu vehemently disagreed with the ruling adding that it is injurious to Parliamentary business.<\/p>\n But the Majority Leader disagreed with the ruling saying on the floor right after the ruling that \u201cI totally disagree with the ruling. It doesn\u2019t sit with the constitution and I must express my discomfort with this unfortunate ruling that has been made because it is very inconsistent. We will come back with a substantive motion to challenge the ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adwoa Safo The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K Bagbin, has granted permission for a report from the Privileges Committee on three absentee Members of Parliament including Sarah Adwoa Safo to be tabled before the house for discussion. The Speaker ruled that the privileges Committee\u2019s report on the three absentee MPs could not be accepted as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235794","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=1235794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Committee had recommended outright dismissal of the absentee Dome Kwabenya MP from Parliament.<\/p>\n