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Osei-Owusu fabricating 'malicious' lies against me - Ablakwa
Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu has said he decided not to push for investigations into the alleged bribery scandal involving Energy Minister, Boakye Ayarko, because the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa claimed it was framed.
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According to Mr Osei-Owusu, Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa told him and some members of the Committee that “they were spreading the corruption allegation” because the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko had labelled former President John Mahama as corrupt.
Appearing before the first public hearing of the ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged scandal, Mr Osei Owusu narrated what happened at a closed-door meeting on the matter.
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“In the conclave, after they had shown that they [Minority] were satisfied and were willing to withdraw their objection and agree for their report to be amended that Hon Osafo Maafo and Boakye Agyarko be passed by consensus, we were going to leave and I said no, there was this allegation already in the public domain, and Honourable Ayariga is the one alleged to have made that allegation so we should discuss that matter after meeting, all the Minority members said was ‘Mr. Speaker cool down , cool down’ and I said ; ‘How can I cool down? This allegation is already in the public domain’. It was at that point that Okudzeto Ablakwa said ‘because Agyarko said our President [Mahama] was corrupt, we were spreading the corruption allegation’. The mood in the room changed afterwards.”
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But in a Facebook post, Mr. Ablakwa described the claim by Mr Osei-Owusu as “malicious and cancerous fabrication.”
“May it be known that the so-called confession attributed to me by Hon. Joe Osei-Owusu is nothing but a desperate, malicious and cancerous fabrication which would not be allowed to fester.
“The last time Hon. Osei-Owusu made this same allegation, he hanged it around the neck of Hon. Mahama Ayariga.
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“I guess he had forgotten to be consistent when he appeared before the Special Committee today,” Mr Ablakwa said.
He indicated that he is well prepared to bring out the truth in the bribery allegation, adding that “let no one doubt my resolve and the extent I am willing to go to vindicate the truth in this matter.”
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