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Be merciful with Adwoa Safo - PNC urges Parliament
The People's National Convention (PNC) has approached Parliament to be lenient towards Dome Kwabenya MP Sarah Adwoa Safo.
The PNC recommended that the House should not race to give judgment on the MP (Member of Parliament) on the grounds that the reasons she has given for being missing are adequately substantial.
The ideological group likewise approached Parliament's Privileges Committee to give the MP adequate opportunity to show up before them prior to pursuing a choice on her and answering to the whole, citinewsroom.com reports.
"It is consequently unusual that she has absented herself this long, however the explanation is self-evident, as she expressed in one of her commitment with the media; labor and its connected complexities… (we ask) government to practice persistence while managing her.
"We demand that Parliament and its Privileges Committee ought to compassionately help out her to have the option to plan a suitable chance to meet her," players in a letter the PNC kept in touch with Parliament read.
Arch Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo, neglected to show up before the Privileges Committee of Parliament after the council gathered the MP to openly to show up before them either face to face or practically by means of Zoom on Wednesday, July 6, 2022.
Yet again an individual from the Privileges Committee, Henry Boakye-Yiadom, said that the board of trustees has neglected to go with a choice on whether the MP's explanations behind absenting herself from the house are legitimate on the grounds that she neglected to introduce herself.
Adwoa Safo is one of three MPs who was alluded to the Privileges Committee by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, for absenting themselves from procedures in the House for in excess of 15 continuous sittings without consent from him (Bagbin).
The other two MPs, Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong and Ayawaso Central MP, Henry Quartey, have proactively showed up before the board.
It is indistinct whether the panel will introduce its reports to the entire who will then, at that point, vote on whether the seats of these MPs ought to be cleared. Nonetheless, reports show that the panel is meeting on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, to decide the destiny of the 3 MPs.
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