Sarah Adwoa Safo, a member of parliament for Dome Kwabenya, has announced her intention to run again in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary primaries to represent the party in the same constituency in the 2024 general elections.
On Friday, August 11, she announced to the press during her tour of the constituency.
“I assured the chiefs we’d facilitate road construction, but also acknowledged our constituency’s size and the need for work in many areas, you saw the enthusiasm, the happiness, and the good reception that I still have with my people, it tells me that I still have some goodwill in the constituency so I will build on that definitely when the time comes. I shall not desert my people, I shall represent them again by God’s grace.”
It is recalled that some members of the NPP believed Adwoa Safo was sabotaging the government for his persistent absence from Parliament.
For instance, the MP for New Juaben South, Michael Okyere Baafi, said she made the work of the government in Parliament difficult.
“According to him, Adwoa Safo is responsible for the problems the government is facing, as her actions suggest she is trying to undermine the NPP.
The MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, revealed that he received ¢120,000 from the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, to be deposited into Adwoa Safo’s bank account for her to work for the government.
“The Chief of Staff called me and I went, I swear my mother’s grave, Chief of Staff gave me ¢120,000 and deposited into Adwoa Safo’s Fidelity Bank account.
“I took the money there into the Fidelity Account, ask her personal assistant if what I am saying is not the truth,” a furious Kennedy Agyapong said.
He added “Now we are in opposition, the way Adwoa Safo is treating the party, it is clearly showing that we are in opposition and this shouldn’t be tolerated at all,” he told Asaase Radio on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.
Mr Agyapong had raised issues against the conduct of Sarah Adwoa Safo.
He criticized the former Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection for requesting the position of Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament.
He wondered why a cabinet minister will now want to occupy a position that is below the rank of a Minister.
