An Accounting professor, Kwaku Asare, has charged the leadership of Parliament to pronounce seats of Individuals of Parliament who have been missing for more than 15 days empty.
Agreeing to him, the governing body must actualize the 2018 Incomparable Court administering on absentee MPs that a lawmaker consequently vacates their situate after 15 ceaseless days of being missing from the House without authorization, in understanding with article 97 of the 1992 structure.
The nation was tossed into a arrangement of talks after the Dome Kwabenya MP was denounced of blackmailing government with a list of demands, counting the Appointee Lion's share Pioneer post.
Sarah Adwoa Safo was last seen in Parliament in December 2021, when she showed up within the House to reject claims by the Minority Meeting that she was imitated. She has since not returned to the Chamber.
Along these lines, the administering Modern Enthusiastic Party (NPP) administration conceded that her nonattendance is influencing the party and government trade.
They moreover uncovered that all options are right now on the table, counting triggering the sacred arrangement to expel her as MP and announce her situate empty.
In any case, the Minority in Parliament has depicted the thought to expel Madam Safo from Parliament as “discriminatory and unscrupulous assaults.”
The NDC MPs are too pushing for the expulsion of two other NPP MPs – Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong and the Ayawaso Central, Henry Quartey.
Agreeing to them, the said lawmakers “were truant without authorization from the Speaker, Alban S.K. Bagbin, for 18 working days each.”
Responding to the progressing discussion, Prof Asare intimated that Parliament’s Receptionist must quickly start applying the law.
Agreeing to him, the Receptionist will be in disdain of court on the off chance that nothing is done at all.
“When it comes to being truant in Parliament, individuals start saying ‘let’s be charitable and empathetic.’ But we must either be a nation of law, or we are not.
“So I think the Receptionist ought to, on Monday, type in to the Appointive Commission that any MP, not fair Adwoa [Safo] who has been missing for more than 15 days, have cleared the situate, and a by-decision ought to be held,” he said.