The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has accepted the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga’s apology for making what the Joe Ghartey Committee found to be false bribery claims against some members of the Appointments Committee. He asked the House to forgive Mr. Ayariga who was found guilty of contempt of … Read more
Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga, has asked the Speaker of Parliament to forgive him after a Committee found him in contempt of Parliament. The Harvard-trained lawyer in a one-page letter read Friday on the floor of the House apologised for peddling a claim that was found to be false by the Joe Ghartey Committee that … Read more
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has accepted the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga’s apology for making what the Joe Ghartey Committee found to be false bribery claims against some members of the Appointments Committee. He asked the House to forgive Mr. Ayariga who was found guilty of contempt of … Read more
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has accepted the MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga’s apology for making what the Joe Ghartey Committee found to be false bribery claims against some members of the Appoitments Committee. He asked the House to forgive Mr. Ayariga who has been found guilty of contempt of Parliament … Read more
Deputy Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, says the apparent weakness of the National Media Commission (NMC) could be blamed on its limited powers. He said the regulatory body could sanitise the media landscape and hold practitioners to task if it is given powers to sanction. Taking his turn before Parliament’s Appointments Committee Thursday, the Ofoase-Ayirebi MP … Read more
Deputy Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, says the apparent weakness of the National Media Commission (NMC) could be blamed on its limited powers. He said the regulatory body could sanitise the media landscape and hold practitioners to task if it is given powers to sanction. Taking his turn before Parliament’s Appointments Committee Thursday, the Ofoase-Ayirebi MP … Read more
The Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has described as hypocritical the minority’s decision to boycott sittings of Parliament’s Appointments Committee. According to him, the minority members still participate in other meetings of the House and therefore he finds it strange why it has decided to stay out of the Appointments Committee’s sittings. The Minority members … Read more
The 2016 flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has called on the leadership of the parliament and the Speaker, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, to deal comprehensively and positively with the bribery scandal that rocked the house recently. According to him, the mere presentation of the Joe Ghartey committee report does … Read more
The 2016 flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has called on the leadership of the parliament and the Speaker, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, to deal comprehensively and positively with the bribery scandal that rocked the house recently. According to him, the mere presentation of the Joe Ghartey committee report does … Read more
A member of the Joe Ghartey Committee says they wrote to members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee to help with investigations into the bribery claim, but none responded. Ben Abdallah Banda says apart from North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP) Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who sent in a memo, no other member of the committee presented any … Read more
March 30, 2017 is a day many who belong to Ghana’s third arm of government, the legislature, will want to quickly forget. It was the day an otherwise regular presentation of a fact finding committee set up by the Speaker of the House turned heads and pitched ‘the three musketeers’ against members of both the … Read more
The Joe Ghartey Committee that investigated allegations of bribery against members of Parliament’s Appointment Committee has launched a spirited defence of the outcome of its work following widespread criticism. The committee is insisting it had the authority to find Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga guilty of contempt and that its decision not to disclose details … Read more
The Joe Ghartey Committee that investigated allegations of bribery against members of Parliament’s Appointment Committee has launched a spirited defence of the outcome of its work following widespread criticism. The committee is insisting it had the authority to find Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga guilty of contempt and that its decision not to disclose details … Read more
The Africa Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), believes the Joe Ghartey committee report on the bribery allegations against Parliament’s Appointments committee, may have only complicated matters and done little to uphold the reputation Ghana’s legislature. According to the Executive Director of ACEPA, Dr. Rashid Dramani, the near fisticuffs and breakdown of order in the House … Read more
The Africa Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), believes the Joe Ghartey committee report on the bribery allegations against Parliament’s Appointments committee, may have only complicated matters and done little to uphold the reputation Ghana’s legislature. According to the Executive Director of ACEPA, Dr. Rashid Dramani, the near fisticuffs and breakdown of order in the House … Read more
“What they wanted was to bring a closure to the matter and not to find or to pursue justice. That’s how the whole thing sounds. It’s like this issue is in the system and people want to know how it will end, so let’s put something together and navigate it to that point where there … Read more
Anti-graft advocate Vitus Adaboo Azeem says it will be hypocritical on the part of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to further probe the bribery allegations against some members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee. “They would have no basis to go into it now,” he asserted. According to Mr Azeem, CHRAJ did Ghanaians … Read more
The North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP) has accused the Joe Ghartey Committee of acting beyond its mandate when it found Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga guilty of contempt. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said the contents of the report shocked him when Joe Ghartey who chaired the Committee presented it to Parliament Thursday. “My initial reaction … Read more
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper says the bribery claims made by Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga were intended to hurt the reputation of Parliament. Abdul Malik Kweku Baako said the allegation, which triggered a Parliamentary probe, was an “invitation to embark on a wild goose chase.” He told Samson Lardy Anyenini on … Read more
Deputy Minister-nominee for Local Government and Rural Development has promised to support his Minister to revive the once vibrant Aburi Botanical Gardens and other recreational parks to attract tourists and generate revenue for the country. Aburi Gardens, which used to be a busy tourist site as well as a research centre into tropical botany is … Read more