Steps taken by the Minority in Parliament to cause a Parliamentary probe into a controversial gift to the President was rejected on Thursday. Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, single-handedly shot down the Minority’s motion which occasioned a recall of Parliament. Below is the Minority’s full statement I thank you for the opportunity to move … Read more
President John Mahama is unperturbed by moves by the minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in parliament to get him investigated over a Ford gift, the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) 2016 campaign spokesperson Joyce Bawa Mogtari has revealed. Parliament yesterday [Thursday] sat to consider a motion brought to it by its Minority members aimed at causing … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has accused the Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho of predetermining the outcome of a motion filed by the Minority calling for a probe into the controversial Ford gift saga against President Mahama. Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu claimed the ruling of Hon. Edward Doe Adjaho was prepared even before the House sat to … Read more
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima Mponua constituency Isaac Asiamah has lashed out at the Speaker Edward Doe Adjaho, describing him as the ‘worst performing Speaker’ in the history of Ghana. Yesterday the Minority Caucus in Parliament were in a state of dismay when the Speaker dismissed a motion filed by them to investigate … Read more
The Deputy Majority Whip in Parliament, wants the Minority to stop lamenting the rejection of their motion to probe President John Mahama by Speaker Doe Adjaho on Thursday. Ahmed Banda says the law that got former President John Kufuor and other public officials off the hook when similar allegations of conflict of interest were kick … Read more
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has criticised the Minority in parliament over what he says is its move to get parliament to override the constitutional mandate of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). According to him, “in a democracy there is dictatorship by the law”. … Read more
Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho was partisan in his ruling on Thursday, 1 September, which scuttled the chances of the Minority to engage the Majority in a debate over the propriety of President John Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford Expedition as a gift from Burkinabe contractor Djibril Kanazoe, Abuakwa South MP Samuel Atta Akyea … Read more
The Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa , has lashed out at the Opposition New Patriotic party over what he says is their futile attempt to smear President John Mahama with corruption. He said “Mahama is incorruptible and will never be”. According to him, the President has proven beyond reasonable … Read more
The decision of the Speaker of parliament to throw out a motion of inquiry filed by the Minority caucus concerning the gift of a Ford SUV to President Mahama is “very saddening”, MP for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea has noted. “The rule of natural justice was not observed because the Speaker of Parliament should … Read more
The Minority in parliament has described the Speaker of Parliament’s decision to throw out a motion to have President Mahama investigated for receiving a Ford SUV gift as “capricious, whimsical”. Mr Edward Doe Adjaho threw out a motion of inquiry filed by Minority legislators on Thursday, 1 September. In dismissing the motion, Mr Adjaho told … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has said the dismissal of a motion it filed to have the house investigate President John Mahama for receiving a Ford Expedition as a gift from a Burkinabe contractor, was arbitrary. Speaking to journalists immediately after Mr Edward Doe Adjaho’s ruling on Thursday, 1 September, Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said dismissing … Read more
Moves by members of the opposition in parliament to impeach President Mahama over the Ford Expedition saga is a decoy being staged by a bigwig of the ruling National Democratic Congress a group with sympathy for the party has alleged. The group led by Abdul Rashid Musah, is alleging that they have gathered reliable information … Read more
Parliament will resume sitting today Thursday September 1 in connection with the motion filed by the minority over President John Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford Expedition present from Burkinabe contractor Djibril Kanazoe, who was in turn awarded numerous contracts by the Government of Ghana. The Speaker of parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, per Article 112, summoned … Read more
The President’s Advisor on Governance and Corruption Daniel Batidam, has denied granting any interview to Joy Fm’s Manasseh Azure Awuni on President Mahama’s ford expedition gift received from Djibril Kanazoe. “You can quote me and play it anywhere…I did not grant any interview to the journalist on the ford expedition gift”, he said. He has … Read more
The Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has no idea why the Speaker of Parliament has summoned Members of Parliament back to the House from their recess, despite reports that it is due to the Minority’s call for investigations into the presidential Ford gift saga. Following the disclosure of Edward Doe Adjaho’s summons to … Read more
A communication team member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has commended the move by the Minority in Parliament to impeach President John Mahama for receiving a Ford Expedition vehicle as gift from a Burkinabe contractor. According to John Kumah, a president who has “a gold medal in taking bribes” is not fit to … Read more
Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says a petition that could lead to impeachment proceedings against President John Mahama over a Ford vehicle gift from a Burkinabe businessman is not a witch hunt. “I don’t have anything personnel against the president,” he told Joy News’s Elton John Brobbey in an interview. The Suame MP has … Read more
Anti-corruption crusader P. C. Appiah-Ofori has described as needless, a move by the Minority in Parliament to impeach President John Mahama in connection with a Ford Expedition gist he received from Burkinabe contractor Djibril Kanazoe. The Minority in parliament will on Thursday move a motion for a probe into circumstances that surrounded the gifting of … Read more
Deputy Majority Leader Alfred Agbesi has said some technicalities will work against a move by the Minority to impeach President John Dramani Mahama over the Ford Expedition gift saga. The Minority in parliament will on Thursday move a motion for a probe into circumstances surrounding Mr Mahama receiving the SUV as a gift from Burkinabe … Read more
It would be just another Zuma Circus Act. And on the latter count, I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, the Chief Majority Whip and notorious statutory rapist, that it would be a total waste of time for Parliament to be recalled for the express, albeit decidedly ineffectual, purpose of considering a motion tabled … Read more