INVESTIGATE BRIBERY CLAIM-FMR NALAG PREZ, NPP COMMUNICATOR

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  Panelists on GBC’s Garden City Radio’s Super Morning Flight in Kumasi have been unanimous in calling for a thorough investigation into the claim of an attempted bribery by a member of the Minority’s side of the Parliamentary Appointments Committee, Mahama Ayariga that one of the then Ministerial nominees during the vetting of the first batch of Ministers-designate tried to pay his way through Parliamentary approval of his nomination.

 The panelists agreed in their views that it is only through a non-partisan probe that can unravel all the circumstances surrounding the claim to allow for proper sanctions to be meted out. 

The Ashanti Regional Communications Director of the NPP, Akwasi Kyei, noted however, that an investigation would eventually exonerate persons accused of engaging in bribery.

 Mr. Kyei wondered why out of the Minority’s 10 members on the Appointments Committee, only three of them are claiming an illegality in the approval of the said Ministerial nominee and asked also why Mr. Ayariga should first take the purported bribe home before returning it. 

The NPP’s Regional Communications Director suggested that the claimants be put to strict test to elicit the truth of the allegation.

 On his part, a former President of the National Association of Local Authorities, NALAG, Ebenezer Akuoko Frimpong, described the allegation as very serious which should not be swept under the carpet. 

According to him, the allegation is very embarrassing to both Ghana and Parliament and if it eventually turns out to be true, it would give credence to previous similar claims by former MP, P.C. Appiah Ofori and former Rector of GIMPA, Professor Stephen Addei that Parliament is corrupt. 

 Aside from this, Mr. Frimpong, who is also the immediate past District Chief Executive for Sekyere Central in Ashanti, noted that however the outcome of the investigations may be, there will be a ramification either for the accusers or the accused.

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