The Member of Parliament for Wa Central, Rashid Pelpuo, has rebuked the Minority in Parliament  over its unsuccessful attempt to get President John Mahama investigated by Parliament  for his receipt of the Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor in 2012.
According to him, the timing of the Minority's action was wrong since the issue had been dealt with when it first came up in the Auditor General’s report in 2013.Â
“It was good the Speaker threw it out because we don’t have time for that because CHRAJ is the constitutional body mandated by the  to do exactly that and they are doing it", he contended.Â
Speaking on “The Big Issue†on Citi FM, he emphasized  “The story as we know came out in the Auditor General’s report in 2013, dealt by the Public Accounts Committee, and was brought to the House. We debated it and nobody raised an issue about investigating the presidency. Manasseh’s story came out and we went back to Parliament on and off, nobody thought about raising an issue or calling for investigationsâ€
“They failed in all these instances, three years after the report, only to wait, three months to the election, when we are on recess working to win our seats, you have brought the matter back, and didn’t even do background checks,†he added.
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