{"id":244984,"date":"2016-09-02T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244984"},"modified":"2016-09-02T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:05:18","slug":"minority-mps-must-pay-for-causing-financial-loss-asiedu-nketiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/minority-mps-must-pay-for-causing-financial-loss-asiedu-nketiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority MPs must pay for causing financial loss  &#8211; Asiedu Nketiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There should have been laws to punish Minority MPs\u00a0over their failed attempt\u00a0at\u00a0filing a\u00a0motion to probe President John Mahama&#8217;s acceptance of a Ford gift, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has said.<\/p>\n<p>Legislators\u00a0were summoned from their recess on Thursday over the matter, in which the President received a\u00a0$100,000 Ford expedition from a Burkinabe contractor who is said to have subsequently benefited from some lucrative government contracts.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YwhtVQS9r8St0feG5hQb6D46Y7KdP20I&#8221;]However the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/01\/speaker-throws-out-motion-to-investigate-mahamas-ford-gift\/\">dismissed the motion<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0explaining that the right body to investigate the matter was the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).<\/p>\n<p>The fact that CHRAJ is already investigating the matter rendered the motion for an early recall of Parliament needless, thereby constituting financial loss to the State, in the view of Mr. Asiedu Nketiah&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> after the brief sitting, the NDC General Secretary held that \u201cPeople should begin to be charged for willfully causing financial loss to the State. The provisions are very clear in the constitution as to how these matters are handled. Everybody in this country knows that those matters are being handled according to the constitution by CHRAJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the law mandates certain constitutional bodies to undertake certain responsibilities, you don\u2019t go and conduct yourself in ways the will take away from the authority of those bodies from discharging their constitutional responsibilities,\u201d Mr. Asiedu Nketiah further said, as he noted that, the Minority had also undermined the authority of CHRAJ with their actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker should have power to reject certain motions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Asiedu Nketia also suggested that, the Speaker of Parliament be given powers to reject certain motions deemed unnecessary; because in this instance, the Minority simply fell back on Article 112:3, which he explained gave them &#8220;power to summon parliament leaving the speaker with no discretion than to summon parliament at this great cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/fcf0bb86-7d69-4fa7-810d-f51ef2ad88f6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-244864\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/fcf0bb86-7d69-4fa7-810d-f51ef2ad88f6.jpg\" alt=\"Parliament\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we look at it and we see that from the practice, we see that there was a clause that should be added to article 112:3 to give the Speaker discretion to examine the cause for the request for the summoning of Parliament, so that the Speaker will now be empowered to examine the reason why you want to recall Parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minority acted in bad faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Majority Chief whip in Parliament, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, also expressed some displeasure with the Minority&#8217;s motion saying it\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/01\/ford-gift-motion-minority-acted-in-bad-faith-muntaka\/\"><strong>acted in bad faith<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in pursuing the case since CHRAJ is already investigating the matter brought before it by\u00a0both\u00a0the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), and the youth wing of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn law, the process of doing something is as important as the matter itself. So you can\u2019t jump the process. All they [Minority] were doing was in bad faith because the matter was being investigated,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There should have been laws to punish Minority MPs\u00a0over their failed attempt\u00a0at\u00a0filing a\u00a0motion to probe President John Mahama&#8217;s acceptance of a Ford gift, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has said. Legislators\u00a0were summoned from their recess on Thursday over the matter, in which the President received a\u00a0$100,000 Ford expedition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minority MPs must pay for causing financial loss - Asiedu Nketiah - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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