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P.C Appiah Ofori shoots down Mahama Ayariga's claims
Mr Ayariga on Monday appeared before the special investigation committee to testify on the circumstances surrounding the bribery scandal in parliament.
Mahama Ayariga
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“I don’t believe the whole story when he (Ayariga) started it. There is nothing that he can show as concrete evidence, hard evidence that is compelling. All that he and his colleagues have been doing and continue to do is talking without proof,” he said on Accra-based Onua FM.
He had earlier said that the Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko sent money to minority MPs in an attempt to influence their decision on his approval after he was vetted for the position.
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Chairman of the appointments committee, Mr Joe Osei Owusu has since denied the claims.
But appearing before the Investigation Committee, Mr Ayariga said he indeed received money through the minority chief whip in parliament, Muntaka Mubarak.
He said he received the money because he thought it was sitting allowance for being part of the Appointments Committee.
Meanwhile, the minority chief whip has denied giving any money to Mr Ayariga.
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Anti-graft crusader P.C Appiah Ofori, however, believes that Mr Ayariga is only making up those claims to dent the image of the Nana Akufo-Addo-led government.
“They are only seeking to defame Nana Addo’s government. It is a revenge tactics they are employing. I think they have rather defamed the august house enough, and if the allegations are found to be false, Ayariga should be removed from Parliament. He would have dragged the good name of Parliament into disrepute,” he said.
The former Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa MP, Mr Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori during the erstwhile President John Kufuor’s government alleged that his colleague New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs and some National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs in the Fourth Parliament were offered $5,000 each during the final vote for the sale of state company, Ghana Telecom to United Kingdom (UK)’s Vodafone plc at an estimated price of $900 million in 2008.
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