Adwoa Safo pleads for forgiveness from NPP, constituents for misconduct

The Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has rendered an apology to the leadership, sympathisers and supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), as well as her constituents for “an attitude I put up some time past.”

In a video shared by the lawmaker on social and sighted by OnuaOnline on Thursday, September 14, 2023, Madam Adwoa Safo said whatever ensued at the time was a result of happenings in her home which she had no control over.

She has therefore asked everyone who was affected in one way or the other, by her attitude at the time, to forgive her.

“I want to use this opportunity to apologise to my party members, the New Patriotic Party and the leadership of the party. Firstly, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, his Vice, our mother the Chief of Staff, Frema Akosua Opare, the Majority Leader and the entire leadership of Parliament, my fellow Parliamentarians, the Majority caucus, I want to use this opportunity to apologise to you all for an attitude I put up some time past. It wasn’t intentional for me to do that or disregard the House but so many things were going on in my life and family and I use this opportunity to plead with you all in the name of God [to forgive me]” she said in a video posted on Facebook.

She extended the apologies to her “Regional Chairman, Constituency Chair, General Secretary, [National] Chairman and all the other executives, supporters and sympathisers of the party, I apologise to you all to forgive me. A proverb from our elders says when a child soils your limbs with faeces, it is cleaned and not amputated.”

The Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya absented herself from sitting for more than the stipulated 15 days according to Ghana’s Constitution and the parliamentary regulations.

The Majority caucus where she belongs wanted her seat declared vacant but was opposed by the Minority MPs who felt she should be heard first.

In March 2022, the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, disclosed that Sarah Adwoa Safo had requested a month-long leave from the House.

Subsequently, the Speaker on May 4, 2022, referred Adwoa Safo and two other individuals including Henry Quartey, MP for Ayawaso Central and Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central to the Privileges Committee for hearing on their case. The other two MPs had also absented themselves for more than the required period.

The two other MPs appeared before the committee and were cleared except for Adwoa Safo who remained absent but rather chose to be posting videos on TikTok throwing jabs at her critics.

The Speaker promised to rule on the matter after the House had returned from recess but has since never been mentioned.