{"id":245294,"date":"2016-09-03T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=245294"},"modified":"2016-09-03T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:00:44","slug":"mahamas-ford-gift-not-conflict-of-interest-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/mahamas-ford-gift-not-conflict-of-interest-bagbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama’s Ford gift not conflict of interest – Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"
The leader of the Majority in Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has dismissed claims that the President compromised his integrity by accepting the Ford gift from the Burkinabe contractor,\u00a0Djibril Kanazoe.<\/p>\n
Bagbin insisted that the president’s acceptance of the gift did not constitute conflict of interest and rubbished the claims that the gift was meant to influence him in any way.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”uVShtNEYu40WWnl3tjvFaxeVUCWTX4Pt”]Speaking in an interview with the host of Eyewitness News<\/strong> Richard Dela Sky on Friday, Alban Bagbin argued that, the President’s decision to give the car to the state absolved him of any misconduct, as was being alleged by the Minority.<\/p>\n “I can say that I know the facts of this case and as one of the global anti-corruption coalition crusaders there is no issue of corruption in this matter. There is no conflict of interest in it. I was happy that the veteran commissioner, Emile Short himself stated that there was no issue of conflict of interest. I cannot take my views away from being an MP on the side of the NDC. I am an NDC MP but I am sharing my experience as one of the longest-serving members of Parliament in Ghana,” he said<\/p>\n “I have been in the global crusade to fight corruption and I moved the motion in the Parliament of Canada to establish the global organization of parliamentarians against corruption. I have been to so many global anti-corruption conferences and I know for a fact that there is no conflict of interest or corruption in this matter.”<\/p>\n