{"id":397810,"date":"2018-02-03T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397810"},"modified":"2018-02-03T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:00:00","slug":"withdraw-cash-for-seat-report-from-parliament-ayine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/withdraw-cash-for-seat-report-from-parliament-ayine\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdraw \u2018cash-for-seat\u2019 report from Parliament – Ayine"},"content":{"rendered":"
A member of the ad-hoc bipartisan committee tasked by Parliament to investigate the alleged extortion of expatriates, Dominic Ayine is demanding a withdrawal of the committee\u2019s report on the saga.<\/p>\n
Dr. Ayine is pushing for a withdrawal on grounds that the report, which was presented to the House on Friday, did not include the final input from Minority members.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”3y7BeJvYHdXYyntlNsmg7SkCh4PsoMwu”]According to Dr. Ayine, though Minority members including himself and Deputy Minority Leader, James Klutse Avedzi had detailed their perspectives on the saga, the Majority side had refused to integrate them before presenting the document to the house.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was expecting the committee chairman to integrate the report I had prepared with what he had prepared but he stated that he would not integrate my report since it was titled ‘Minority report\u2019,\u201d Dr. Ayine stated on Eyewitness News.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Ayine, therefore, demanded that the Minority\u2019s views be integrated in the final report, saying \u201cI have made a complaint to leadership and they are working on it but I do not pre-empt the steps that they will take. The report should be withdrawn and the proper thing should be done in the sense that the Minority\u2019s views should be filed and integrated as a composite document.\u201d<\/p>\n Confusion rocks committee<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Ayine had raised similar concerns on Thursday which, according to the Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah- Bonsu, led to the committee\u2019s failure to present the report, despite having had its deadline pushed back twice already<\/p>\n