The five-member ad-hoc Committee constituted by Parliament to investigate the alleged extortion of expatriates who participated in the December 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA) will begin public sittings\u00a0on the matter today [Thursday].<\/p>\n
The members of the Committee previously sat on Monday to set out the modalities for their work.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”66QKOPZCAbSrNDjUeWQBa3NQfl30haA0″]The Committee\u2019s sessions will be open to the public, with the members of the Minority who had called for the probe into the matter, the Ministry of Trade and other parties expected to give testimony.<\/p>\n
\u2018Terms of reference\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Minority had expressed concerns after Parliament\u2019s emergency sitting last week that the terms of reference for the Committee had not been spelt out by the Speaker when it was convened.<\/p>\n But the Member of Parliament for Adenta and a member of the Committee, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, indicated that the Committee was working with clearly defined terms of reference which had originated from the motion submitted by the Minority themselves.<\/p>\n The Committee is expected to submit its report to the House \u201cas soon as possible, one day after our recall which is 24th [January 2018].\u201d<\/p>\n The Committee has three members of the Majority namely Ameyaw Kyeremeh, Majority Chief Whip, who will Chair the Committee, Dr. Assibey Yeboah, Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament, and Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, MP for Adentan.<\/p>\n On the Minority side are James Klutsey Avedzie, Deputy Minority Leader, and Dominic Ayine, the MP for Bolgatanga East.<\/p>\n