{"id":1247314,"date":"2022-11-09T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/adwoa-safo-back-to-help-save-ken-ofori-atta-from-removal-suhuyini\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T13:32:09","slug":"adwoa-safo-back-to-help-save-ken-ofori-atta-from-removal-suhuyini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/adwoa-safo-back-to-help-save-ken-ofori-atta-from-removal-suhuyini\/","title":{"rendered":"Adwoa Safo back to help save Ken Ofori-Atta from removal &#8211; Suhuyini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Adwoa-Safo1-754x424-1.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Alhassan Suhuyini, has a theory about the rationale behind Dome-Kwabenya legislator, Sarah Adwoa Safo\u2019s recent return to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Adwoa Safo has been absent from the House for a long time for which reason there are moves to get her seat declared vacant.<\/p>\n<p>The MP was publicly seen on Sunday worshipping at a church in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Suhuyini suspects the MP\u2019s presence in Ghana is part of a chain of sequences geared towards preventing the passing of the vote of censure motion against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know there is an important vote coming up?\u201d Suhuyini said on Accra-based TV3 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Finance Minister\u2019s vote of censure, she has shown up. When did she last show up last minute? On the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"eDGaG0xUG9U\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Majority Leader clashes with Speaker over decision to subject Adwoa Safo\u2019s fate to vote\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eDGaG0xUG9U?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Minority will on Thursday, November 10 be expected to move its vote against Mr Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>The Caucus cited mismanagement of the economy, alleged withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund, and illegal payment of oil revenues into offshore accounts among others as the grounds for the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>This, Alhassan Suhuyini believes, is the motive for Adwoa Safo\u2019s decision to come back to GHhana at this crucial period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it is curious that an important vote is coming up\u2026and the president has found a way and remember the president wants to save the Finance Minister at all costs, Adwoa is back,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NPP MPs to drag Speaker to court over Adwoa Safo ruling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Majority in Parliament says it is considering dragging the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to the Supreme Court over his ruling on the Dome-Kwabenya MP.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>According to the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the ruling was \u201cunfortunate\u201d, saying the Speaker may have misinterpreted the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we lend ourselves by what I consider to be a very capricious ruling, then the Supreme Court would be the final arbiter,\u201d he told JoyNews.<\/p>\n<p>Alban Bagbin ruled that <strong>the entire House must debate the Privileges Committee\u2019s report<\/strong> on whether or not the Dome-Kwabenya MP should lose her seat for absenting herself for more than 15 sittings.<\/p>\n<p>Her continuous absence from Parliament divided the House with the Majority interestingly taking the view that the Privileges Committee report should be final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Alhassan Suhuyini, has a theory about the rationale behind Dome-Kwabenya legislator, Sarah Adwoa Safo\u2019s recent return to Ghana. Madam Adwoa Safo has been absent from the House for a long time for which reason there are moves to get her seat declared vacant. The MP was publicly seen on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247314","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\/1247314","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=1247314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}