{"id":1250087,"date":"2022-11-14T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/14\/kt-hammond-wants-firm-decision-on-adwoa-safo\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:26:11","slug":"kt-hammond-wants-firm-decision-on-adwoa-safo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/14\/kt-hammond-wants-firm-decision-on-adwoa-safo\/","title":{"rendered":"KT Hammond wants firm decision on Adwoa Safo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa, KT Hammond, wants Parliament to take a firm decision on Dome-Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo.<\/p>\n<p>Amid moves to declare her seat vacant after she failed to respond to queries from the Privileges Committee after a long absence, Mr. Hammond speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> said, \u201cone way or the other, there should be an outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in limbo. Nobody really understands her status now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Adwoa Safo returned to the House last Friday after a long absence.<\/p>\n<p>She had been under fire for her continuous absence from the country.<\/p>\n<p>The MP has been living in the US this past year and requested for leave of absence in 2021 from her then-ministerial post as the Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection.<\/p>\n<p>MPs will be debating the fate of the Adwoa Safo on the floor of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee to get the legislator to give reasons for her continued absence from the House failed to yield any positive results.<\/p>\n<p>The committee had failed to achieve a consensus in its recommendations on whether absenting herself for more than the mandatory 15 days without permission warranted her seat being declared vacant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/9zRLANwWO1g\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/9zRLANwWO1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa, KT Hammond, wants Parliament to take a firm decision on Dome-Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo. Amid moves to declare her seat vacant after she failed to respond to queries from the Privileges Committee after a long absence, Mr. Hammond speaking to Citi News said, \u201cone way or the other, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250087","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\/1250087","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=1250087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}