– As they rally support for her to go Unopposed
Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo, last Friday March 13 2020, became the toast of the Minority in Parliament after she presented the Business statement for the preceeding week. She was holding forth for the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who was out of Parliament that day.
Adwoa Safo, who had been away from Parliament for some time, in her usual soft-spoken voice presented the statement to the rather sparsely populated house, with Members listening with cocked ears.
After the presentation, members from the Minority brought out their grievances, concerns, misgivings and reservations on the statement.
Possible having missed her, the MPs could not hide their feelings as each contributor rather showed appreciation to her for what they described as the “able-manner” in which she had done the presentation, instead of giving the appreciation to the Business Committee that had drafted the statement.
It came as no surprise therefore, when out-spoken MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, when he took his turn to contribute to the statement indicated how some of them missed her so much for her seemingly long absence from the House. He subsequently took the opportunity to welcome her back from her honey moon, thus creating laughter.
Apparently not being the only Member to have missed her, the urge was so much that more contributors from the Minority in particular wanted to contribute, with some even trying to speak for the second or third time. This situation made the Speak, Rt. Hon. Aaron Mike Ocquaye in the chair, rule that all those who had spoken once should whisper whatever again was in their mind to their next colleague to speak. He also had to curtail the contributions which were incessantly pouring in.
After this, Hon. Adwoa Safo, who also doubles as the Member of Parliament for Dome/Kwabenya, took her time, and in her soft-spoken voice coupled with her resplendent facial outlook responded to all their grievances advanced in an abled-manner to the very satisfaction of all contributors, who apparently showed their appreciation by shouting in unison, “Go Unopposed!”
Incidentally, Adwoa, as she is affectionately called, is being contested for her Dome/Kwabenya seat in the forthcoming NPP primaries by Mike Ocquaye Jnr, Ghana’s Ambassador to India and Son of Speaker Rt. Hon. Aaron Mike Ocquaye who was once Ambassador there. A situation that has generated a lot of controversies and talks all over the place.
Source: S.O Ankamah