{"id":395314,"date":"2018-01-26T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=395314"},"modified":"2018-01-26T06:02:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:02:28","slug":"cash-for-seat-cttee-sittings-over-report-to-be-ready-on-jan-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/cash-for-seat-cttee-sittings-over-report-to-be-ready-on-jan-31\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cash-for-seat’ C’ttee sittings over, report to be ready on Jan. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
The five-member bi-partisan parliamentary Committee probing the alleged collection of monies from expatriates to enable them sit close to the President during the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards ceremony, has ended its public sitting which sought to collect evidence from various individuals and institutions.<\/p>\n
According to Spokesperson of the Committee, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, the Committee will hold no further public hearings.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News\u2019 <\/strong>Parliamentary Correspondent, Duke Mensah Opoku, Buabeng Asamoah, who is also the Member of Parliament for Adenta,\u00a0 indicated that they would work hard to meet their extended deadline of 31st<\/sup> January, 2018.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”JZVpoDgCNxBIyWLax3L6lKqLjWf9Yr8j”]\u201cHappily, the public sitting and all the sittings have come to an end; we appear to have collected sufficient information. The Committee will now go into the backroom, sit down and sift through the evidence and go to the business of report,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The Committee over the past few weeks has been probing the alleged payment of cash by the expatriate business community to sit close to the President at an Awards ceremony.<\/p>\n Others interrogated<\/strong><\/p>\n So far, the Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Mubarak-Muntaka, North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyeremateng as well as officials from the Millennium Excellence Foundation, organizers of the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, and the Controller and Accountant General, have all appeared before the committee.<\/p>\n Committee\u2019s timeline extended to January 31<\/strong><\/p>\n The Committee had earlier been given a one-week extension<\/strong><\/a><\/span> after they requested for additional time which meant that they will now\u00a0present the report to Parliament on January 31, 2018, instead of the original date of January 24.<\/p>\n