Previous Tamale Central MP, Inusah Fuseini, says the long nonappearance of Sarah Adwoa Safo from Parliament without the Speaker’s authorization could be a disfavor to the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Talking on Accra-based Citi FM, he said the Dome-Kwabenya MP must confront the results of her activities as her conduct is untoward as a lawmaker.
“The conduct of Adwoa Safo and the things and information coming out of her nonattendance in Parliament isn't as it were humiliating but stunning. Usually since she is an MP, and per Article 97 (1) (C) of the 1992 Structure, an MP cannot be truant without authorization from the Speaker for 15 days,” he said.
Concurring to Mr Fuseini, Adwoa Safo “must be alluded to the benefits committee for a sensible clarification without which she vacates the situate.”
He said any citizen can similarly request the Preeminent Court to expel her from office over her conduct.
“The structure is exceptionally clear. You'll be able to trigger it by attending to court…In case her clarification is sensible, she is affirm. But in case the benefits committee conclude that it isn't sensible, her situate will be pronounced empty, and a vote was taken,” he famous.
Sarah Adwoa Safo has been scrutinized by a few NPP MPs and party individuals for absenting herself from Parliament without the Speaker’s authorization since the House continued sitting this year.
A few party individuals denounced the Arch-Kwabenya MP of holding the NPP to deliver, considering the current hung Parliament and the numbers required to pass the controversial E-levy bill.
The party individuals have too charged that the MP’s conduct is due to the government’s refusal to give her ask of being made the Agent Larger part Pioneer in Parliament, her past position in Parliament.
In the interim, a part of NPP’s Communications Group, Awal Mohammed, has indicated that the Party will take a firm choice on Adwoa Safo’s issue in due time.
“The government and the party is taking a firm choice on the issue, and within the coming weeks, the result will be out,” he expressed.
Talking with Emefa Adeti on Prime Morning on Wednesday, Mr Awal famous that in spite of the fact that her nonappearance from Parliament adversely influences government trade, it may be a protected issue that has to be treated.
The Deputy General Secretary of the Modern Energetic Party, Nana Obiri Boahen, has too rejected calls for Sarah Adwoa Safo’s through and through suspension.
Nana Obiri Boahen clarified that the Party must apply the legitimate strategies some time recently taking any last choice.
He contended that the Speaker of the House is the as it were specialist to bring the MP to book due to her nonappearance from Parliament, not the authority of the Party.
“In the event that for one reason or the other a Parliamentarian is missing, it doesn’t lie within the mouth of the party administration to bring that individual to book… With all lowliness, we are not in a wilderness; we are in a majority rule nation.
“We have the three organs of government…in case, for occurrence, a Part of Parliament is truant for twenty or thirty days, it is the Speaker who will pronounce the situate empty, anything brief of that, legitimately that ought to not be the position,” he said on The Beat last Tuesday.