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The star witness in the cash for seats scandal, Mohammed Mubarak - Muntaka, has told Citi News that he felt some members of the Ameyaw Cheremeh committee tried discrediting his claims instead of soliciting for information to help the committee unearth the truth in the allegations that the Ministry of Trade sold seats to expatriates to allow them sit close to the President during that Ghana Expatriates Business Awards.

The five - member ad - hoc Committee constituted by Parliament to investigate the alleged extortion of expatriates who participated in the recent Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA), will begin public sittings on the matter on Thursday, January 11, 2018.

The five - member ad hoc committee set up by the Speaker of Parliament to probe into claims that foreign businesses were levied to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA) has finished its work.

The Controller and Accountant General, Eugene Ofosuhene, has told the Committee investigating the alleged collection of monies from expatriates to enable them sit close to the President during the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards ceremony that, his department was totally oblivious of any dealings associated with the event.

There were heated arguments on the floor of Parliament today [Friday], from both sides of the chamber over a motion filed by the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, for a special committee to be set up to investigate claims that the Trade Ministry extorted between $ 25,000 and $ 100,000 from expatriates to allow them sit close to the President during the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards held in the country.

Parliament has given the Committee set up to probe the alleged extortion of monies from expatriates during the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards a one week extension to present its report to the House.

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei - Owusu, has asked the bi-partisan Committee set up to probe the alleged extortion of monies from expatriates during the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, to ensure that they meet the deadline given to them by the House, and submit their report accordingly.

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, have all appeared before the committee.

Parliament will today debate the report of the bipartisan «cash for seat» Committee, barely a month after the Committee was formed to investigate claims that the Trade Ministry extorted $ 100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to the President during the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards in December 2017.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the North Tongu constituency, Okudzeto Ablakwa says he is unperturbed by the Speaker of Parliament's referral of the report presented by the Committee that investigated alleged extortion of expatriates during the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, to the Privileges Committee.

The Millennium Excellence Foundation, the organization that hosted the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, has said it is considering a court action against some two minority Members of Parliament over the cash - for - seat allegations.

The Minority has staged a walkout from Parliament over the «cash for seat» Committee report following a probe into claims that the Trade Ministry extorted $ 100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to the President during the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards in December 2017.

File photo: President Akufo - Addo in a group photo with some dignitaries at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards

The Ministry of Trade and Industry failed or neglected to take account of possible violations of foreign corrupt practice laws and regulations in the conception, design and organization of the expatriate business awards.

Not exact matches

Officials of the Ministry of Trade and Industry will later today [Friday], take their turn before Parliament's Committee probing allegations that some expatriates were made to pay huge sums to have access to the President at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards held in 2017.

Some expatriates who participated in the controversial Expatriate Business Awards ceremony that has been at the center of the alleged cash - for - seat saga are scheduled to appear before the bi-partisan Parliamentary committee probing the matter today Tuesday].

The Ministry was alleged to have charged between $ 25,000 and $ 100,000 to enable expatriates to sit close to the President at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards.

The Trade Ministry has conceded that some expatriate businesses that sat close to President Akufo - Addo during the recently held Ghana Expatriate Business Awards in Accra paid monies to earn proximity to the first gentlemen.

On Monday the Minority Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa alleged extortion of between $ 25000 and $ 100,000 from expatriate businesses to determine how close to the president they sit at an awards ceremony for expatriate businesses.

Members of the Minority have accused the Trade and Industry Ministry of levying expatriates who participated in the recently held Ghana Expatriate Business Awards in Accra.

The two MPs got into a heated argument in Parliament over the controversial Ghana Expatriate Business Awards, following claims by the Minority that government charged $ 100,000 from expatriates to make them...

All the expatriate business representatives scheduled to appear before the Parliamentary ad hoc committee looking into allegations of the payment of monies to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo at an awards event last year failed to show up on Tuesday.

On the December 29, 2017, an application by the Minority - led by its chief whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak - Muntaka filed a motion, calling for investigations into the levy and collection by the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Ghana cedi equivalent of various sums of money in US dollars, from expatriate businesses and related matters during the recently held Ghana Expatriate Business Awards in Accra.

The Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, alleged in Parliament in December 2017 that the Trade Ministry charged expatriates between $ 25,000 and $ 100,000, to book a seat at the recent Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA) which had President Akufo - Addo in attendance.

On December 14, 2017, Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak accused the Trade Ministry of charging expatriate businesses between $ 15,000 and $ 100,000 to sit by President Akufo - Addo at an awards ceremony organized by Millennium Excellence Foundation.