Adwoa Safo to NPP: Why ridicule me but skip disciplinary hearing?

Sarah Adwoa Safo, a former Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, has expressed concern over the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) handling of disciplinary proceedings brought against her.

Her comments followed the absence of the party’s disciplinary committee at its headquarters, where she had arrived to respond to allegations of misconduct.

According to her, a party officer informed her upon arrival that the meeting had been called off.

Speaking to journalists at the NPP headquarters in Accra on Monday, April 7, Adwoa Safo questioned why she was not personally informed of the cancellation.

“There was no committee sitting. I had an engagement with one of the party’s national officers. There was no hearing, so I am asking myself why I was served on a Sunday to appear when there’s no committee sitting. And then, if there was a change of plan, why wasn’t I served personally or summoned to be told?”

“If there was a change of plan, why wasn’t I served personally or phoned to be told…I am prepared for a committee hearing, and I come and there is no sitting, so I just pack my bag and just come out.”

She further expressed disappointment in the party’s handling of the matter.

“I just think that as a party we ought to be a bit serious about these things because, as a lawyer, when a client is referred to a disciplinary committee, the presumption is that the person has done something untoward and you are going to be disciplined.”

“…So why ridicule me in public and come here and tell me that the committee is not even sitting…I thought there was a better way to do this,” she added.

Meanwhile, the Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Haruna Mohammed, who received Adwoa Safo at the party office, denied her claim that she had not been informed of the postponement.

According to him, the former MP was duly notified through her legal representatives.

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