Member of Parliament for the Bawku Central constituency, Mahama Ayariga says the allegation of bribery against the leadership of the Appointments Committee of parliament and Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko started from Radio Gold adding that he has no direct evidence of bribery allegations.

According to him, on January 27, 2017, he received a call from radio Gold in respect of the bribery allegation in Parliament and was asked to comment on it.

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He confirmed that indeed he received the money from the Minority Chief Whip, monies he initially thought was their sitting allowance but when he was told it was a bribe coming from Boakye Agyarko, he together with other minority members on the appointment committee decided to return the money.

"The bribery allegation came out through Radio Gold and Radio Gold started it, I think in the afternoon, in the form of breaking news. This must have been around two o’clock in the afternoon and then it went into social media (and) it went online.

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"I got wind of it online, I didn’t hear but I just saw it on WhatsApp that Radio Gold had said this, then subsequently I got the call from Radio Gold asking for an interview with me on this issue that they had put out.

"I thought about it and said OK I will grant them the interview and I will tell them what I knew about it because I was a member of the committee."

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Mahama Ayariga who is a member of the Appointments Committee, alleged that Minority MPs rejected GHc3000 given to them by, chairman of the Appointments Committee, Joe Osei-Owusua after they had found out the money was coming from Mr Agyarko who was then a minister designate, to induce them to approve him.