Adwoa Safo sabotaging Akufo-Addo …Kennedy Agyapong opens fire

Sarah Adwoa Safo, the absentee-Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency is holding the President Akufo-Adddo led Government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to ransom and making demands to suit her personal interest, the Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, has said.

The New Juabeng South MP, Michael Kofi Okyere Baafi, has also publicly accused the same Sarah Adwoa Safo of Sabotaging the NPP government business and alleged that the Dome-Kwabenya MP had requested that she should be made the Deputy Majority Leader else she would not return from her base outside the country to cooperate with her side of the divide in Parliament.

“Clearly, her intention and posture show that she wants to sabotage NPP… All 136 NPP MPs are always in Parliament except for Adwoa Safo. One person cannot hold the party to ransom,” Mr. Okyere Baafi who doubles as a Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry noted.

In direct and clear language, the sine qua non for the return of Adwoa Safo to Parliament would require the current Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo‐Markin, to hand over the position to her, and take a bow in honour of her as though she were a spoilt over pampered little princess crying over a neighbour’s loaded gun.

Mr. Kennedy Agyapong, in an interview with Oman FM said the fact that he and Adwoa Safo have biological children together does not mean he would act as a hypocrite and shield her over such a matter.

Kennedy, on his part, however did not state the exact reason for which he said Adwoa Safo was holding the NPP to ransom although talks that she he wants to be given the Deputy Majority Leader position currently being held by the Effutu Constituency MP, Afenyo-Markin, has become an open secret.

The NPP Constituency Secretary for Dome-Kwabenya has told Joy News that the prolonged absence of Adwoa Safo has become problematic for the party in that constituency and the Constituency Council of Elders is at the threshold of announcing a decision on the way forward.

Indeed many political watchers have called for her outright sack for a bi-election to be held.

Not only is she absent from Parliament, but she has also left behind her office as Minister for Children, Gender and Social Protection. That Minister has had a caretaker minister in charge due to Adwoa’s absence.

Meanwhile Speaker Bagbin is out of town, meaning the First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei‐Owusu would have to sit in as Speaker.

With such a situation, the NPP cannot afford to miss even a single vote especially when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) side has accounted for all its 137 members.

This same Sarah Adwoa Safo, reported to be making demands, has not really done much worth writing home about at the Gender Ministry.

She was absent from work for so long a time that there were public calls for her resignation.

Some of her major decisions at that Ministry had turned out to be counterproductive and generated public anger until they had to be reserved by a directive from the office of the President.

Adwoa Safo later, in a statement, described her counterproductive decisions as Administrative errors.

The absentee Adwoa is still enjoying the tax payer’s money as salary for the position she occupies at that ministry.