The dubious claim that Adwoa Sarfo's flight cost was paid for by her friends is most insulting Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa Jabs
He stressed that the Office of Special Prosecutor must look into the entire GH¢ 1,068,500.00 expenditure for Adwoa Safo's E-Vote and not only the GH¢120,000.00 deposited in her account.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has stated that the dubious claim that the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Mrs. Sarah Adwoa Safo's flight cost was paid for by her friends is most insulting.
The Deputy Minister of Education asked that
who are these friends who paid for her flight," adding that "What is their motivation? Why do these friends want the unpopular E-Levy passed so badly? What do these friends expect in return? What are the tax records of these friends? Why are these friends being shielded?"
He disclosed the actual details on the flight that supposedly brought the MP for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, back into the country to pass a vote on the controversial E-Levy in late 2021.
"It is surprising that the focus of many including Civil Society Organisations in the series of Adwoa Asafo revelations has been on the alleged GH¢120,000.00 transfer into her bank account from the Chief of Staff.
"The cost of the private jet used to ferry her from the USA to Ghana which is much higher than the GH¢120,000.00 cannot be ignored.
"We now know that a Gulfstream G-550 registered HB-JOE and operated by Premium Jet AG based in Belgium was the executive aircraft chartered to bring in Hon. Adwoa Safo for her vote on the obnoxious E-Levy. It cost US$4,800 an hour to rent the HB-JOE," Okudzeto-Ablakwa stated.
With an 11-hour flight distance, according to h payment of reposition fees (as it flew from Belgium to pick her up in the States), payment of one-way fees (as the business jet flies back home empty), crew per diem fees, landing, and wait-time fees; it cost a staggering US$140,000.00.
At today's exchange rate, the MP stated that is GH¢948,500.00
According to him, it is most intriguing that an economy that is said to be broke can lavish a fantastic GHS948,500.00 plus GH%120, 000.00 (a total of GH¢1,068,500.00) just for one E-Levy vote. Imagine what our country can do with 1million Cedis amid our economic challenges, NABCO demonstrations, and labor agitations?
He asked that "How ironic, that the political tradition that in time past roundly rejected the reported kindness of President Rawlings' friends will today be boldly canvassing a bizarre kind of friendship support.
He stressed that the Office of Special Prosecutor must look into the entire GH¢ 1,068,500.00 expenditure for Adwoa Safo's E-Vote and not only the GH¢120,000.00 deposited in her account.
He asserted that the current composition of Ghana's 8th Parliament should lead us to a patriotic, mature, and frugal path of consensus building in the national interest; and not the present embarrassing specter of opting for an extremely partisan, destructive, wasteful, small-minded, and reckless road to perdition.
