John Boadu, the general secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has confirmed that all efforts to get the Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo back to the country to perform her parliamentary duties have not been successful.
He said the continued absence of the lawmaker is a worrying trend.
Speaking to Beatrice Adu on Asaase radio Wednesday (23 February), Boadu said, “we’re all concerned about making sure our government runs and considering how Parliament is split in the middle, any occasion that any of the MPs is absent is a cause for worry.”
Demands
The Assin Central MP Ken Agyapong alleged on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Tuesday (22 February) that Safo is demanding for the removal of Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin before she would return to Parliament.
“If the President heeds to Adwoa Safo’s demands then I will also go to the US and demand that the President resigns before I come to Parliament,” Agyapong told Kwaku Nhyira-Addo.
However, Boadu feels the matter should be handled with tact because “there were times that Ken [Agyapong] himself was outside the country, he had planned to come two days before we needed him and he had to be rushed to come to join his colleagues.”
“…Just as Adwoa was occasionally brought in and this time I think she’s kept out far too long and all efforts to get her is proven futile, but I don’t think we’re at the end of the tunnel,” Boadu added.
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