He wants Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who is also the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee dragged before the committee over claims that some Ghanaians are fighting for ISIS in Libya.

[contextly_sidebar id=”EhabuofImL2o2RACnOtfZfkjSAHbA0TP”]Mr. Ablakwa at a press conference earlier this week, called on the government to investigate the alleged participation of some Ghanaians in ISIS activities. He said his information was based on a recent report released by the Head of Investigations at the Libyan Attorney General’s office.

But the Manhyia South MP, Mr. Amankwah, said Okudzeto Ablakwa’s comments were unsubstantiated and had the potential of jeopardizing national security.

“Issues they raised were not substantiated. The issues bordered on security matters and security matters are not like Makola or Kejetia matters where you can handle it anyhow. Some of us are considering dragging him to the privileges committee so that henceforth, such matters will be well handled as far as the legislature is concerned.”

“Foreign policy is different from national security. He could talk about it, but not the manner in which he did. We need to double-check such facts before we put it out there to create unnecessary tension and create fear and panic,” he said.

He added that, “Not everything must be put before the public especially when it borders on defense and security… The port of call must be through the national security or ministry of interior… What is his motivation in the first place?”

Meanwhile, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa insists that the Minority in Parliament did no wrong in bringing the matter up in public. He said if for anything at all, the minority deserve commendation for exposing the report to the public.

“I thought that the Minority would be commended that we are being diligent and that we are following [the matter]. As ranking member of the Foreign Affairs committee, I’m not supposed to just be cocooned within the Ghanaian space and follow only what the Ghanaian media has talked about,” Ablakwa said on Eyewitness News on Thursday.

Gov’t investigating report

In response to the Minority’s public comments on the matter, the Majority said on Wednesday that the government is investigating the report, and will certainly break its silence on the matter after the investigation.

Ablakwa urged the government to treat the matter as a top priority, as it potentially concerned the safety of Ghanaians.

“This is a very serious matter and that is why we believe that government must accord it all the seriousness it deserves. We did conduct background checks” he insisted.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Prosper Agblor, Director–General in charge of the CID, who confirmed this to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday, said  that one Charles Andoh, a former employee of Miura Petroleum Limited (MPL), has admitted to the Police that he forged the signatures of both the Minister and the Managing Director of MPL.

Commissioner of Police (COP) Agblor said Andoh is on Police Enquiry Bail, but has not been reporting himself to the Police since he was granted bail on April 17.

As a result, Andoh’s sureties have been ordered to produce him on the date fixed for his appearance in court, that is, Wednesday, May 28, or face the consequences.

Narrating the circumstances leading to the forgery, the CID Boss said, in December last year, MPL, a company which is into oil exploration and development in the country, applied to the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum for exploration and development site, in respect of Offshore Cape Three Points Oil Block.

The company was denied, but was asked to re-apply for another block. While awaiting the re-application, there emerged online publications in Offshore Energy, Today, and Petroleum Africa Magazines, that the Ministry had exclusively united a Canadian Oil Company, Gondwana Oil Company, to take up the Offshore Cape Three Points Oil Block.

The CID Director–General said the publication was found to be false, and investigation revealed it was actuated by letters allegedly forged on the letterheads of both the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, and the MPL, and forwarded to Gondwana Oil Company.

The suspected forged letters had signature purported to be those of the Energy Minister and the MD of MPL and according to COP Agblor, both personalities have denied any knowledge of the letters.

In a prèss release dated April 10, the Ministry denied having invited MPL for any negotiation over any block in Ghana’s Sedimentary Basins.

The statement recounted that on December 23 last year, MPL submitted an application for an exploration and production license over the Offshore Cape Three Points South Block.

It said, unfortunately for MPL, at the time of submitting the application, evaluation of earlier applications for the block, had been completed, and a decision taken, and so MPL’s application was not processed for formal evaluation.

The statement said, the Ministry in a letter dated January 19 this year, informed MPL of the unavailability of its area of interest, and therefore requested the company to re-direct the application to any available open block for consideration.

With respect to Gondwana, the statement pointed out that the Ministry has never had any engagements with it, and therefore has no record of it.

Meanwhile, the Chief Executive Officer of MPL has been arrested and granted  bail by EOCO, after intensive interrogation, because EOCO believes that he has questions to answer.

Source: GNA

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