Minority 'conflict' with Joe Wise on Adwoa Safo adventure
The Minority has countered claims by the Chairman of Parliament's Privileges Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu (Joe Wise), that the seat of Dome Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo has been pronounced empty.
Tending to the media in Parliament on Thursday, July 14, an individual from the Committee, Alhassan Bashir Alhassan (A.B.A) Fuseini said the council was even on the way out with a report on the topic of non-attendant MPs.
In the particular instance of Sarah Adwoa Safo, the Sagnarigu MP said albeit the Committee put forth all attempts to contact her to show up before it, "the Clerk of the council made plainly he can't say for sure that the correspondence that Parliament looked to move past to her really contacted her."
To this end, he focused on that Adwoa Safo's seat can't be proclaimed empty since they have not heard from her.
Refering to Standing Order 161 of Parliament, A. B. A Fuseini kept up with that the Privileges Committee was not an island all alone to simply decide.
He focused on that each choice came to at the board level should precede the House for other resulting moves to be made on it.
"No board is an island no matter what anyone else might think or is a regulation upon to itself or authority… when it is comprised, it takes choices and afterward executes. The Committee can't execute choices. It alludes it to the whole for a choice to be made and afterward through Mr. Speaker the imperative activities will be followed.
"Have you seen any matter in regard of the Privileges Committee on the floor of the House? Standing Order 161 (b) says that when that report has been made by the Committee, the Chairman of the Committee should move a movement on the floor of the House for a goal to be taken… for Mr. Speaker to then put the inquiry.
"That then, at that point, turns into the choice of the House. We haven't even had the valuable chance to try and persuade a report to be laid, for the report to be brought before the House, for the House to try and think about the report and for a goal with regards to this issue to be taken. Take a gander at this large number of steps," the lawmaker said.
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Mr. Fuseini thusly depicted Joe Wise's remarks as "a wicked tirade" coming from "someone who has a ripe creative mind for naughtiness."
Joe Wise in a meeting with Joy News said the seat of Adwoa Safo is naturally empty following her inability to show up before the Privileges Committee.
He demonstrated that the report of the Committee had prescribed for the Clerk to keep in touch with the Electoral Commission showing the opportunity in Parliament.
"In regard of the other two [Kennedy Agyapong and Henry Quartey], all our report will say is that they showed up before the Committee, they offered clarifications, the Committee finds the clarifications sensible.
"She [Adwoa Safo] neglected to make the most of the potential open doors given her… she fizzled or wouldn't make sense of why she's missing. So without a trace of clarification, the Constitution in Article 97(1)(a) kicks in that she should empty her seat," Joe Wise added.
"I think as per the law, it is for the Clerk to proclaim [the seat vacant] or illuminate the Electoral Commission that an opportunity has happened. That is the very thing the constitution says and that is the very thing that our report will reflect in the House," he added.
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