Parliament, originally expected to resume sitting in late September, will resume on Thursday with the Minority expected to move a motion for a probe into circumstances surrounding President John Mahama's receipt of the $100,000 Ford Expedition gift from Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe.
The hearing of the motion comes after the opposition managed to get over 100 signatures of their members to compel the Speaker of the house to summon the house from recess.Â
But according to Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Alfred Agbesi,the  some technicalities will work against the move by the Minority to impeach President Mahama.
In an interview with Accra-based Class FM, Mr Agbesi said, “In the first place, when the motion is heard, there can be technicalities to see whether the motion is even proper before the house, whether technically it can be heard, and then we will proceed to see whether the motion can be moved. If it is moved, then we will need the required number to pass it and, therefore, the impeachment process can beginâ€.
In a separate interview on Accra FM on Monday, August 29, he emphatically stated that the impeachment would not be successful because the majority would scuttle the process in “two hoursâ€.
However, minority MP for Kade, Asamoah Ofosu, said the Minority’s main aim for filing the motion is not to impeach the president.
“If the president receives a gift which was intended to be gifted to the state, why was it registered? Why did you pay tax [when] you received a gift and passed it on to the state...? If it is a new car, why was it registered as a second-hand car? So, there are several controversies…we want a committee to investigate. It is not to impeach the president; it is only when after the investigations, there is a cause for his impeachment then we will proceed, but it is not intended to impeach the president,†he stated, according to peacefmonline.