A survey indicates that 50 per cent of Dome Kwabenya constituents still prefer their embattled MP Sarah Adwoa Safo despite her protracted absence from parliament.
The Global Info Analytics survey said 50.3 per cent of voters in Dome Kwabenya are ‘very likely or likely’ to vote for the incumbent MP.
Some 30.6 per cent are ‘very unlikely or unlikely’ to retain her.
The remainder 19.2 per cent of voters are middling about it.
“The outcome of the 2024 race in this constituency will be determined by several factors: the strength of change, and the loyalty of voters to Adwoa Safo and how she exits as well as the influence of the Christo Asafo church members,” the survey said.
Meanwhile, the Privileges Committee of Parliament has sent a Zoom link to Adwoa Safo so she can appear for questioning in connection with her protracted absence from parliament without the Speaker’s permission.
Ms Safo is currently in the US attending to her sick child.
The committee said it had to resort to hosting Adwoa Safo online because all attempts to get her to fly back home to appear before the committee have proven futile.
The ranking member of the committee, Mr George Kweku Ritchett-Hagan, made this disclosure after the committee’s sitting on Wednesday, June 15, 2022.
Mr Ricketts-Hagan explained that the Minister of Gender and Social Protection has still not responded to the link.
She has been rescheduled to appear on July 6, 2022 following an earlier no-show.
The Committee is probing the protracted absenteeism of Ms Safo as well as two other MPs of the majority caucus, Mr Kennedy Agyapong and Henry Quartey.
In a recent interview, Adwoa Safo said she is not aware she has been invited or served a notice of appearance by parliament in connection with her previously scheduled appearance before the Privileges Committee on Friday, 27 May 2022.
“I am not aware such a thing has been given to me”, she told Accra-based Joy News on Thursday, adding: “I am just hearing it from you”.
“As we speak, I don’t know that I have been invited”, she stressed.
“I have to be served,” she added.
The Minister of Gender, Child and Social Protection said she will only return home from the United States when her sick son is declared fit and healthy.
