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General Synod member, Canon Simon Butler said: «Such was the interest in serving on this Working Group and the strength - in - depth of the insights and skills offered to the Appointments Committee that we could have easily populated the Working Group twice over.

The chairman for the Referees Appointment Committee, Eddie Doku, has given the clearest indication that the 48 Division One League clubs will be compelled to pay GH cents 10,000 as an officiating fee if the League does not get a headline sponsor before the start of the 2017/18 season.

The chairman for the Referees Appointment Committee, Eddie Doku, has given the clearest indication that the 48 Division One League clubs...

The Appointments Committee of Parliament resumed vetting of ministerial nominees on Monday January 30, 2017, amidst raging controversy that MPs were given monies to approve a nominee.

«However, in his testimony which was beamed live on National television and which has been widely reported in the national print media, the chairman of the Appointments Committee and first deputy speaker of parliament, Honourable Joseph Osei Wusu, mentioned our client as having told him that the bribery allegation was made up,» it added.

Mr Martin Amidu, President Akufo - Addo's nominee for the office of the Special prosecutor has told Parliament's Appointments Committee that all the allegations he levelled against former President Mahama and the NDC before the 2016 election were based on perception not reality.

Three members of parliament from the minority led by Mahama Ayariga have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Mike Oquaye over an alleged bribery allegation against the Appointments Committee.

Botchwey told the appointments committee of parliament during her vetting on Monday that the law mandating national service came into effect a year after she graduated.

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has indicated that he supports a full scale investigation into the bribery allegation against the appointments committee to establish the truth of the matter.

However, speaking to Citi News» Umaru Sanda Amadu after taking her turn at the Appointments Committee of Parliament, the Minister nominee for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, failed to disclose whether or not the NPP government will review the agreement.

The former Attorney General was on Tuesday, 13 February 2018, vetted by the Appointments Committee of parliament.

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey appeared before the Appointments Committee on Monday where she was vetted.

The Majority Chief whip in parliament, Ameyaw Cheremeh has indicated that the MP for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga, could be suspended should his bribery allegation against the Appointment Committee turn out to be false.

They include Chairman of the Appointments Committee Joe Osei - Owusu, Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak, Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga and Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko.

Mr. Suhuyini, along with two other Minority members of the Appointments Committee; Mahama Ayariga and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MPs for Bawku Central and North Tongu, have written to the Speaker of Parliament calling for a thorough investigation of the bribery claims against the Mr. Agyarko.

The Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Mr Osei Owusu, the minority chief whip in parliament, Mubarak Muntaka, and the Energy Minister have denied the claims.

The claims surfaced last Thursday with Mr. Ayariga accusing Mr. Agyarko of bribing the 10 Minority members of the Appointments Committee with GHc3, 000 to pass him.

The Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu has disclosed that he has a very caring heart despite his demeanour which makes him look like an unfriendly person He was answering questions from Parliament's Appointment Committee on Tuesday (February 13, 2018) during his vetting as the Special Prosecutor nominee.

The Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament Joe Osei Owusu will be the first to appear before the five - member investigative ad - hoc committee investigating the bribery allegation made by three minority MPs.

«I would not go into a conspiracy to bear false witness against a nominee as suggested by Chairman of the Appointment Committee of Parliament Joe Osei - Owusu when he appeared before Parliament with regards to bribery allegations,» he stated.

Mr. Ablakwa stressed that, he has been on the Appointment Committee for several years and would not associated himself with such allegations knowing the consequences involved.

The Appointments Committee decision is expected to be debated by the plenary session of Parliament by Thursday.

The Minority members on the Appointments Committee pointed to comments the former A-G had made to disparage the party he belongs.

Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu has received an overwhelming endorsement from Parliament's Appointments Committee, Myjoyonline.com has learnt.

Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee - David Torrance appointed to replace Kate Forbes as a member.

He succeeded together with his able members in the appointment Committee to dispel the perception that only the NPP had the men and women.

However, Finance Minister - designate, Ken Ofori Atta, answering questions when he appeard before the parliamentary Appointment Committee denied the President's pledge saying «I don't know where we (NPP) promised to pay all contractors in 100 days.»

The incoming Majority members, with their numbers said to be hovering around 170 as against the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) 115, are expected by Nana Addo, to ensure that his nominated ministers, who will be vetted by the Appointment Committee, are given the nod using their number as an effective weapon.

STRANEK has been closely following proceedings in the nation's Parliament, particularly the vetting of minister designates by the Appointments Committee of Parliament.

Mr. Osei Owusu, also the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, said a confession had been made to the effect that the allegation was made by some Minority members to settle scores, following prior claims by the Majority side that Mr. Mahama was corrupt.

The Joe Ghartey committee arrived at its conclusion because «Mr. Mahama Ayariga failed to prove that indeed Hon. Boakye Agyarko gave money to Hon. Joseph Osei - Owusu to be distributed to Members of the Appointments Committee with a view to bribe them.»

In fact he proved the contrary, as the Ranking Member of the Appointment Committee.

Alban Bagbin has become the face of Ghanaian politics not for his 25 years so far in parliament and still counting, but for the extraordinary role he played as two terms Minority Leader, twice Majority Leader and Chairman of some strategic committees of Parliament such as Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Committee, which he chaired twice, Public Accounts and Appointments Committee.

The genesis of the bribery scandal stemmed from a Minority member of the Committee, Mahama Ayariga, who alleged that Mr. Agyarko, attempted to bribe the ten minority members on parliament's Appointments Committee with GHc3000 each to ensure the approval of his nomination as the Energy Minister.

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has rubbished claims that he confessed to the chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Joe Osei - Owusu, that the allegation of bribery against the Committee was concocted.

This is in spite of the fact that the Appointments Committee is yet to release its report on the nominee

Ayariga, the MP for Bawku Central, caused public outrage when he claimed on pro-NDC network — Radio Gold — recently that the Minority Chief Whip who is the NDC MP for Asawase, shared envelopes containing GH cents 3,000 for minority members serving on the Appointments Committee to approve Mr. Agyarko.

The bribery allegation followed the reluctance by the Minority side of the Appointments Committee to recommend Mr Agyarko for passage over certain comments he made against former President John Mahama during his vetting.

The committee has been tasked to investigate Mahama Ayariga's allegation that Boakye Agyarko — who was being vetted by the Appointments Committee — through some people, paid GH cents 3,000 to the minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs on the committee to influence his (Agyarko's) approval as Minister of Energy.

Mr Ayariga, who is a member of the Appointments Committee, told Radio Gold in an interview that the Minority MPs rejected the GHS3000 each which was enveloped for them when they later found out that the money was coming from Mr Agyarko as a bribe.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

They are specifically looking into the allegation against the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Joe Osei - Owusu, who Mahama Ayariga had mentioned as being the conduit for the bribing and Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, who Mahama Ayariga claimed had brought the money.

Mr Ayariga, on Friday 27 January, told Radio Gold in an interview that the Chairman of the Appointment Committee Joe Osei Owusu had given?

Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga will be appearing before the Ghartey Committee today, Monday, 20 February, as the body continues its probe into a bribery allegation Mr Ayariga made against the leadership of the Appointments Committee and Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko.

I tried to raise the issue in Parliament and at the preparatory meeting of the Appointments Committee of Parliament.

In the ensuing debate, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, a minority member of the Appointments Committee, was also said to have said on Montie Fm — a sister station of Radio Gold — that he didn't know anything about the alleged bribe, even though he was expected to have benefitted from it.

Allotey Jacobs further emphasized that he was convinced the Energy Minister did not give bribe to any member of the Appointments Committee arguing further that claims of bribery allegation are attempts to tarnish the reputation of Boakye Agyarko.

Mr Ayariga had alleged that Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko had offered, through committee chair Joe Osei - Owusu and Minority Chief Whip Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, bribe of GHS3000 to each of the Minority MPs on the Appointments Committee to facilitate his (Mr Agyarko's) approval as Minister.

Mahama Ayariga must not give in to «intimidation» by opposition and governing party MPs, but remain firm in his position on the bribery allegation he made against the leadership of the Appointments Committee of parliament some weeks ago, the Bawku Central NDC has advised.

However, in his testimony which was beamed live on television and which has been widely reported in the national print media, the Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament and First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Honourable Joseph Osei - Owusu, mentioned our client as having told him the bribery allegation was made up.