The Minority in Parliament is demanding an emergency recall of the house, to consider the setting up of a committee of enquiry into the alleged extortion of money from expatriates by the Trade Ministry, at the recently held Ghana Expatriate Business Awards.
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 for the Speaker to summon a meeting.
“We the undersigned Members of Parliament from the respective constituencies indicated against our names and comprising of more than fifteen percent (15%) of all the members of parliament, HEREBY, request for a meeting of parliament and humbly request of the Speaker of Parliament to summon a meeting of Parliament for the consideration of the following proposed urgent Agenda.â€
Per constitutional provision, the Speaker must within seven days convene a sitting to deliberate on the issue.
Some minority members have accused the trade ministry of extortion during the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards organised by the Millennium Excellence Awards.
According to them, the expatriates were made to pay as much as $100,000 for the privilege of sitting next to the President.
But the President has exonerated the Trade Ministry of any wrongdoing after the Ministry was made to submit a report on the extortion claim by the Minority.
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