Ace investigative journalist Manasseh Azure has made shocking revelation about the activities of the Appointments Committee of Parliament since 2019.
Read his Facebook revelation below:
In “The President Ghana Never Got,” the immediate past First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu and the former NDC’s Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, confirmed to me that the Appointments Committee of Parliament routinely received cash payment from the Office of the President during vetting of ministerial nominees.
The cash payment was to provide a level playing ground for nominees who could not pay. That practice started in 2009 and had remained. (I’m yet to know if that’s happening in the current vetting). The committee members took the weekly payments from the Jubilee House even though they were officially paid by parliament for their time on the vetting committee.
The two MPs, however, denied the bribery allegation by Mahama Ayariga and other NDC MPs during the vetting of Boakye Agyarko in 2017.
The Deputy Speaker also told me in the recorded interview I had before writing the book that some nominees often wanted to pay money through him and when he told them it wasn’t required, they didn’t believe him.
Chapter Twenty-Five of “The President Never Got” reveals the inner workings of Parliament and how a former MP said nothing moved in the House without money changing hands. State institutions appearing before parliamentary committees, including the Public Accounts Committee, had to pay money to the MPs before they could be heard.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
