{"id":306560,"date":"2017-03-31T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=306560"},"modified":"2017-03-31T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T06:00:04","slug":"dont-go-to-court-joe-ghartey-committee-tells-osei-owusu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/dont-go-to-court-joe-ghartey-committee-tells-osei-owusu\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t go to court – Joe Ghartey committee tells Osei-Owusu"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Joe Ghartey committee has warned that the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Joe Osei-Owusu, will undermine\u00a0the dignity of Parliament if he pursues the bribery allegations against him in court.<\/p>\n
The warning formed part of the Committee\u2019s report which found the Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, in contempt<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of Parliament for making the allegations which were said to be without substance.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”HOZleIIV9AZKzlLtdaxkriwXctVKrG0S”]The Committee deemed its investigation into the allegations adequate enough, and thus urged Mr. Osei-Owusu not to take the matter to court to clear his name as he had initially threatened.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter this process by Parliament’s special committee to investigate this matter, we are of the view that to take this matter to court will be to undermine the dignity of Parliament. The courts have not hesitated on their part to say that parliament is a master of its own procedures and arguably its own proceedings.”<\/p>\n The Committee added that “we therefore resist the temptation into looking into the remits and the complaints and assertions made by the First Deputy Speaker about the matter any further than what has been done above and subject to our recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n