Parliament Bribery Probe
The Joe Ghartey Committee investigating allegations of bribery against three Members of Parliament and a Minister is likely to submit its report to Parliament on Wednesday. A member of the...
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It’s Been Difficult Working With My Accusers On Appointment Committee – Osei Owusu
Chairman of Parliament’s Appointment Committee says working with Minority members of the Committee who accused him of facilitating an attempt to bribe them has been difficult. Joseph Osei Owusu...
Vetting of Last Batch of Ministers Begins Monday
Vetting of the last batch of 54 ministers of state and deputy ministers-designate will start on Monday, March 27, 2017, with the appearance of the four ministers of state-designate before the...
Osei-Owusu To MMDAs
First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joseph Osei-Owusu has registered his displeasure over the deliberate misuse of public funds by some assemblies in the country. He said most heads of various...
Osei-Owusu Confident of ‘exoneration’ As Report Drags
Chairman of Parliament’s Appointment Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu, says he will be vindicated in the bribery scandal when the report of an investigative committee is made public. The deadline for...
Vetting of MPs and Non-MPs Are Not the Same
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South and Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has stated that the public should not expect the Appointments Committee to ask Members of Parliament...
Fresh Evidence Stalls Joe Ghartey Committee’s Report
The First Deputy Majority chief whip, Matthew Nyindam, has revealed that fresh evidence from a witness has temporarily stalled the work of the five-member ad hoc committee set up by parliament to...
Ghartey Committee Report Ready – Mathew Nyindam
Deputy Majority Chief Whip Mathew Nyindam has said the Joe Ghartey Committee report on the probe into bribery allegations against the leadership of the Appointments Committee of parliament is ready...
Food Sovereignty Tackles Osei-Owusu On GMOs
Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) has said it “totally rejects the false impression” that the chairman of parliament’s Appointments Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu, sought to create during the vetting...
Minority Questions Lack Substance -Tarzan
The former boss of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby has chastised the conduct of the minority members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament describing their conduct as...
Witnesses To Joe Ghartey Committee Should Swear Before Shrines
“From Monday it was difficult for me to look at people’s faces,” an emotional Chairman of Parliament's Appointments Committee, Joseph Osei Owusu said last week when he faced Parliament's...
Radio Gold To Be Hauled Before Ad Hoc Committee
The Joe Ghartey-led Ad hoc committee probing the alleged bribery scandal that has hit the legislature would be calling up Accra-based Radio Gold for questioning very soon, Kasapafmonline.com can...
“Mahama Ayariga Is Telling the Truth” — Ayariga’s Opponent Declares
We are it again! People have sworn by the Almighty God in order to make them appear believable. And it doesn’t seem the current probe being undertaken by a parliamentary committee to ascertain...
Joe Ghartey Committee On Bribery Allegation Sits…Witnesses Won’t Budge
It was a day of insistence on earlier allegations of bribery and denial of the allegations by members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) and a minister of state when they appeared...
Bribery Scandal: I’d No Need, Motive To Bribe ‘vetting’ C’ttee – Agyarko
The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has strenuously denied ever bribing members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament to lure them into confirming his nomination, stating that he had “no...
I Was Shocked By Best Friend Ayariga’s Claims – Muntaka
The Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has said he was shocked by the allegations that he and the chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament acted as conduits for Energy...
I Was Shocked By Best Friend Ayariga’s Claims – Muntaka
The Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has said he was shocked by the allegations that he and the chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament acted as conduits for Energy...
I Never Played Any Role In Bribery Allegations
A member of Parliament's Appoitment Committee Muntaka Mubarak who was fingered in an alleged bribery allegation has taken his turn before a committee set by the Speaker of Parliament to investigate...
I Have No Direct Evidence To Back Bribery Claims
Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga has said he has no direct evidence which will prove that members of Parliament's Appointment Committee received a bribe from the then Minister of...
Ayariga Holds Stance On Bribery Allegation, Says Muntaka Told Him It Was Bribe
Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, says he still stands by the bribery allegation he made against the parliament’s Appointments Committee, and explained it was all based on...