Expatriate extortion claims: Minority summon an abuse of Parliamentary processes

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said the memo by the Minority to the Speaker demanding an emergency recall of the house is an abuse of parliamentary processes. 

According to him, although the Minority have that constitutional right, the extortion claims at the recently held Ghana Expatriate Business Awards does not necessitate an emergency recall.

“We go on recess and the first working day after we proceed on recess they are summoning parliament. It will seem to me that that clearly is an abuse of processes of parliament. However, it’s their constitutional charge if they want to apply themselves to it.”

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Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak has in a memo to the Speaker of the House evoked Article 112 Clause 3 of the 1992 constitution. It was seconded by North Tongu MP Okudzeto Ablakwa with the support of 15% of MPs.

The Minority is accusing the Trade Ministry of extorting as much as $100,000 for the privilege of sitting next to the President during the awards.

The Minority in the memo said the emergency sitting is to consider the setting up of a committee of enquiry into the alleged extortion of money from expatriates by the Trade Ministry.

But reacting to the memo in a radio interview, Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, said he spoke to the Speaker and there will be the need for them to possibly meet the Minority to talk about the issue.

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