The Member of Parliament for the people of Dome Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has expressed frustrations over ill-treatment meted out to her in the ruling New Patriotic Party following her absence from parliament.
According to the embattled lawmaker, she has become a “victim of a sustained political witch hunt” by certain elements within the governing NPP and in Parliament to achieve their own parochial goals.
Sarah Adwoa Safo believes she is being treated unfairly by people including her party members who were supposed to have rallied behind her in times of difficulties and could not fathom if it was because of her gender balance.
The Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection has come under immense criticism over her consistent absence from Parliament with the Speaker of the House, Alban Bagbin referring her to the privileges committee to answer to her absenteeism.
But in a recent Facebook post to congratulate the newly-elected executives of the party, the MP noted that despite sacrificing a lot for her great NPP and the country at large, she has turned a traitor in the eyes of her own people.
“In the last few months that I have been away from official duties albeit not intentionally, I have become a victim of a sustained political witch hunt by certain elements in the NPP and Parliament to achieve their own parochial goals.
“This has left me asking myself if this is happening because I am a woman who for just this one time needed some time off to deal with a few personal issues which were too dear to share with the larger public.
“As a member of the party, I have served with utmost diligence (both in opposition and in government) and have at all times put the fortunes of my family at the disposal of the party.
“At no point in time have myself nor my family withheld anything of ours from our great party, yet today, I am conveniently being called a traitor and all manner of names with several schemes being put to play and employed to oust me from my position as MP and minister,” Sarah Adwoa Safo lamented.
The onetime Deputy Majority Leader in parliament was therefore regretful of the kind of treatment meted out at her instead of protecting her like she did for a colleague Minister some years back who had stayed out of the House over similar reasons.
Touching on the theme for the just ended National Delegate Conference, ‘Holding Together, Working Together’, she emphasized that members of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo Tradition must stand for one another.
“There is a need for us to stay United. Every single person and vote are needed in our singular quest to break the eight. We cannot give up on anyone,” she said.
