{"id":228934,"date":"2016-07-08T06:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=228934"},"modified":"2016-07-08T06:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:05:37","slug":"attempts-to-impeach-mahama-over-ford-saga-useless-inusah-fuseini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/attempts-to-impeach-mahama-over-ford-saga-useless-inusah-fuseini\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempts to impeach Mahama over Ford saga useless – Inusah Fuseini"},"content":{"rendered":"
Any moves by the Minority in Parliament to impeach President John Mahama over the Ford Expedition saga will be an exercises in futility, a senior Member of the Majority in Parliament has said.<\/p>\n
Describing the attempts as \u201cuseless and fruitless\u201d the MP for Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, said the minority should instead be concentrating on the November elections.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”khq5KwduogGaMfTFi81vvUXHF63CzpRl”]\u201cIt is much ado about nothing…\u00a0They better concentrate on what they can do to win elections than engaging in a useless and fruitless petition against the President or an alleged impeachment against the President which process is even faulty from the start,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Citi News<\/strong> sources in Parliament revealed that the Minority side has started collecting signatures<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs in a bid to have the Speaker of the House open impeachment proceedings against the President or have him investigated.<\/p>\n By close of work last Friday, at least 50 MPs from the Minority had appended their signatures to a document that may push for either Parliamentary investigation into President John Mahama\u2019s Ford Expedition Saga or impeachment proceedings against the President.<\/p>\n But Alhaji\u00a0Fuseini, who is also a former Chairman of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee in Parliament, maintained that the Minority\u2019s actions would yield no results.<\/p>\n He further stated that, the Minority should have \u201cengaged more with both sides of the house before they even come public with what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n President Mahama has been drawing heavy fire since news reports named him as having received a dubious car gift from a Burkinabe Contractor.<\/p>\n The contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, is on record as having confirmed giving out the car as gift to Mr. Mahama, for which the President called to thank him.<\/p>\n Media reports have quoted Mr. Kanazoe as saying the gift was a purely friendly gesture and not a dubious token aimed at influencing the Mahama administration to reciprocate by giving him government contracts.<\/p>\n But anti-corruption campaigners have called for a transparent probe, insisting that the car gift may have been a bribe disguised as a friendly gesture, especially as it came from a man whose company had executed two contracts for the government of Ghana.<\/p>\n Bribery claims over Ford gift baseless \u2013 Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n The President has publicly confirmed receipt of the car but\u00a0denies it was a bribe<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0In his defence, the President said he was\u00a0not a fan of American cars<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and that the ford vehicle in question had been put into the pool of\u00a0state cars.<\/p>\n However, Minority MPs have dismissed the President\u2019s explanations and are pressing for a probe and may even push for his removal from office.<\/p>\n Majority to stand behind president<\/strong><\/p>\n Insiders say if the Minority decides to press for a Parliamentary probe; the Majority side may shoot down such a motion given the sheer size of the governing NDC in Parliament.<\/p>\n