A former Chief of Staff during the Kufuor presidency, Kojo Mpiani has called on President Akufo-Addo to stop pampering embattled Gender Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo.
According to him, the constant refusal of the Dome-Kwabenya MP to show up in the Chamber and at her Ministry warrants her sack from the government.
Madam Safo who has not been sighted in Parliament since the beginning of the year has courted the displeasure of the party in her constituency as well as most of her colleagues on the Majority side of the House.
The MP who is on a leave of absence from her role as the Gender Minister is said to be peeved over the reversal of her dismissal of the School Feeding boss, Madam Gertrude Quashigah.
That decision which sources say bruised her ego saw her abandoning the Ministry as she packed bag and baggage to Europe.
A few months back, videos of her dancing on the social media app, TikTok went viral with a section of the populace calling into question her state of mind.
She however surfaced in Parliament in December for the controversial vote to reverse the 2022 budget.
Efforts to get her to return to the House for another crucial vote to approve the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) Bill appears to have proved futile.
She’s said to be demanding reinstatement to her previous position on the Majority’s front bench as the Deputy Majority Leader, a position she held in the seventh Parliament.
Commenting on those developments, Mr Mpiani questioned the delay in relieving her of position.
“You were appointed by the President, I have given you a job to do; so, if you are not doing the job, what should I do as a President? You either resign from the job, or I sack you. I don’t see the real problem there…begging a minister to work; it never happens anywhere.”
“I’ve given you a job to do as a Minister, you didn’t come to me, or anybody asked me to appoint you. Maybe I saw something good in you, so I appointed you to be a Minister of State. You’re not going to work, and you want me to come and beg you to work? It shouldn’t happen that way; that should never happen,” he said on Accra-based Joy News.
Source: Thenewsroomonline