Pamper Adwoa Safo, she needs that – Doyo Ghansah to NPP

Deputy Minority Chief Whip, Comfort Doyo Ghansah, has said Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament Sarah Adwoa Safo needs pampering from her party leadership at the moment.

She asked the NPP leadership to be calm and listen to her concerns rather than the public backlash.

“All women are the same, they need pampering a lot. If you are able to get them and you don’t pamper them, by all means, you will crash with them. So they should rather relax, get her, sit her down and check what the actual problem is,” the Ada MP told TV3’s Komla Kluste in an interview.


She further said the NPP leadership in Parliament has not been able to mobilize all of its members to get government business done in Parliament successfully.

Ghansah Doyo said that apart from Adwoa Safo who has been absent, the NPP has not been able to get all of its lawmakers to be available to push their policies through.

“It is just the frontline and few of them who are interested in this E-levy. Apart from Adwoa Safo, they should tell me the day they have been able to marshal 137 people to the chamber. They should tell me one day that they have been able to marshal 137 people to the chamber.

“If they add Adwoa Safo, it will be 138. Apart from Adwoa Safo, go and pick our votes and proceedings and check the day they have been able to marshal 137 people into the chamber.

“A lot of them are not interested in the E-levy but just that they cannot talk,” she said.

Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Freddie Blay has said Sarah Adwoa Safo asked permission to be away for some time.

“Adwoa Safo had asked permission to be away for some time,” he said when asked about the whereabouts of the Gender Minister.

When asked again why members of the NPP are worried about her absence if indeed she asked permission to be away, he answered “why shouldn’t people be worried. We are in parliament where the numbers are almost at par except that we have one person majority over the NDC.

“People need to vote for E-levy or any matter that will come to Parliament. Parliament is sharply divided over many issues and the vote is critical. We need every single vote to add to our numbers and therefore, party leadership, government, and even the President are worried about it.

“We want our numbers to be in a situation where we can take advantage of our majority,” he told TV3’s Evelyn Tengmaa in an interview on Wednesday, February 23.

Some members of the NPP believe Adwoa Safo is sabotaging the government. For instance, the MP for New Juabeng South, Michael Okyere Baafi, said she is making the work of the government in Parliament difficult.

“All the problems the government is facing are attributable to Adwoa Safo. Clearly, her intention and posture show that she wants to sabotage NPP,” he said on Kumasi-based Hello FM.

The MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has also revealed that the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare gave him ¢120,000 to be deposited into the bank account of Adwoa Safo for her to attend to Parliament duties to work for the government.

“The Chief of Staff called me and I went, I swear my mother’s grave, Chief of Staff gave me ¢120,000 and deposited into Adwoa Safo’s Fidelity Bank account.

“I took the money there into the Fidelity Account, ask her personal assistant if what I am saying is not the truth,” a furious Kennedy Agyapong said.

He added “Now we are in opposition, the way Adwoa Safo is treating the party, it is clearly showing that we are in opposition and this shouldn’t be tolerated at all,” he told Asaase Radio on Tuesday, February 22.

Mr. Agyapong had raised issues against the conduct of Sarah Adwoa Safo.

He said that the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection has failed in life for requesting that she should be made a Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament.

He wondered why a cabinet minister will now want to occupy a position that is below the rank of a Minister.

Speaking on her rampant absence from Parliament, Mr Agyapong, who has two children with her, said: “She says she wants to be Deputy Majority, that woman has failed in life. A whole cabinet minister now demanding that she should be made a Deputy Majority Leader before she comes, she should go to hell.

“You don’t come to Parliament and you are on TikTok dancing? Dome Kwabenya is not for Apostle Kwadwo Safo, get it straight. I am very furious because people are insulting me because I went there to campaign for her. Mike Oquaye the Speaker, the man that I respect very well, I campaigned against his son because Adwoa used my kids, calling me and begging me to help her. And now everybody is insulting me for doing that but I have not regretted it, she is very responsible when it comes to the kids,” he said on GTV Monday, February 21.

Asked how many days she has been absent from Parliament, he answered: “More than 15 days and the law says 15 days.”

Asked again whether Ghanaians should expect her seat to be declared vacant, he said: “Why not? She should go and contest on TikTok.”