Parliament approves 2022 budget
Adwoa Safo shows up in parliament
Adwoa Safo was not in parliament, according to Samuel Okudzeto.
Sarah Adwoa Safo, Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya and Minister of Gender, has responded to North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s claims that she might not have been in the House on November 30, 2021, when the budget was approved under tumultuous circumstances.
Sarah Adwoa Safo had been absent from the House for some time, but she returned on Tuesday and had few interactions with her colleagues (all members of the Majority caucus). There have been rumors that the MP might have been replaced during that session.
Speaking on JoyFM and monitored by GhanaWeb, Okudzeto Ablakwa indicated how they, on the Minority, had doubts if she was indeed the one in the House on the said date
“Following pictures and videos we are reviewing this morning; it is becoming quite apparent to us that there may be a case of impersonation with regards to the lady who was presented as Adwoa Safo. It’s beginning to appear that she may not be Adwoa Safo,” he said.
But the Dome-Kwabenya MP, while breaking her silence on the matter on the floor of the House on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, said that it was an insult that her colleague would infer such a thing.
“Mr. Speaker, I also want to state on record, Mr. Speaker, this is a House of Records and as a former Deputy Majority Leader of this House, I was present in this House yesterday and to state categorically that I cannot force Honourable Okudzeto, who is my friend on the other side, to dress the way I want him to dress and that is an insult on womanhood,” she said.
The Minority has insisted that they would still investigate the claims on whether or not Sarah Adwoa Safo was indeed the one in the House on the day the budget was approved.
The Minority has also indicated that it has 27 videos to prove that the Minister of Gender is not the one who was in the House on the said day.
