The general public should trust that the five-member committee established by the Speaker of Parliament to look into bribery allegations levelled at the Appointments Committee of parliament and Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko will do a good work, KB Asante, a retired diplomat, has said.
According to him, concerns that a committee made up of Members of Parliament looking into an issue involving their colleagues could not be trusted was misplaced.
Speaker Prof Mike Oquaye on Tuesday January 31 directed that parliament set up a five-member ad hoc committee to investigate a bribery allegation levelled against the Appointments Committee.
The members of the committee, according to Prof Oquaye, would not necessarily be from parliament. It will be chaired by former Second Deputy Speaker Joe Ghartey. The other members are MPs Ben Abdallah, Ama Pomaa Boateng, Magnus Kofi Amoatey, and B.T. Baba.
Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom, on Accra100.5FM on Wednesday February 1, Mr Asante said: “Parliament is a body that we the people have established from our various [constituencies]. They are supposed to represent the whole country, they can make laws that will send you and [me] to prison or deprive us of our lives. There is a problem and we have asked some of them in their wisdom to go out and look at the matter and now we are disputing whether what they will find will be correct.
“Honestly, I don’t understand it; either we go to Mars or to the moon to find people to [address] this problem or we use people here who will know and we trust to do the right thing.
“Parliament can do it because they set up the laws for the whole country… They are representatives of all of us; we chose them.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
