One of the lead conveners of social advocacy group, FixTheCountry Movement, is convinced that there is deliberate attempt by the governing NPP leadership to court public hatred for absentee Dome Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo.
Felicity Nelson has described Adwoa Safo as a "heroine" refusing to tow the party line to approve the highly unpopular E-Levy tax regime.
Ms Nelson’s comments follow an attack by Assin Central MP, Ken Agyapong, on the absentee MP on state-owned GTV.
“If you are not careful people like Kennedy Agyapong would have you hating heroines like Adwoa Safo who refuse to tow the party line and vote in favour of the E-Levy,” one of Felicity Nelson’s Facebook comments over the matter on Monday, February 21, 2022, said.
Adwoa Safo has been absent from Parliament for more than 15 days, triggering calls for her seat to be declared vacant.
The law states that a parliamentary seat can be declared vacant if an MP fails to show up in the House for 15 days.
Mr Agyapong on GTV accused the absentee MP of twisting the arm of Majority leadership to be made Deputy Majority Leader.
According to him, this is one of the reasons Adwoa Safo has been absent from the House.
“She says she wants to be a deputy majority leader; that woman has failed in life. A whole minister, a cabinet minister, now demanding that she should be made a deputy majority leader before she comes, she should go to hell.”
Mr Agyapong added: “Don’t think I have two kids with her; therefore, I’ll never speak the truth; even at gunpoint, I’ll speak the truth”.
But the likes of Felicity Nelson believe Adwoa Safo is absent from Parliament because she does not support the E-Levy which the government seems desperate to pass.