Adwoa Safo, the former Member of Parliament for Dome/Kwabenya, has said that the demolition of a bus terminal belonging to her father's transport company in Agbogbloshie, Accra, contributed to the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) defeat in the 2024 election.

According to the former Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, a significant number of her father's church members, who traditionally delivered substantial votes for the NPP during elections, were affected by the demolition, which effectively led to the collapse of her father's transport business.

Speaking in an interview with Okay FM, monitored by GhanaWeb, the lawyer and politician expressed her disappointment that her own party, while in government, could be so callous toward her father's business, despite his support for the party in various ways.

"My father, Apostle Dr. Engineer Kwadwo Safo, had a transport company called Imperial Express, which operated buses traveling across the country and to neighboring countries, including Togo and Benin. The bus terminal was located in Agbogbloshie near the ICGC church. One morning, we woke up to see a bulldozer demolishing the bus terminal. When I called the then Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, he told me that it was an 'order from above.' At that time, my own party was in government. They destroyed my father's business—we could not even take a single piece of paper. We were not given any notice to allow us to remove our belongings from the premises.

Those were the same buses we used to transport voters to various parts of the country to vote for the party during elections. In 2012, a significant number of voters were transported to different destinations across the country to vote for the NPP. The land on which the bus terminal stood belongs to the government and had been rented to us, for which we were making payments. Who is the person above who gave the order for the demolition? What pains me the most is that, up until now, the land has been walled off, and nothing has been done with it."

Demolition of my father's bus terminal under NPP contributed to the party's defeat- Sarah Adwoa Safo#UTVGhana pic.twitter.com/6rEH18k5Oo

— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) March 20, 2025