[ 2017-01-27 ]

Boakye Agyarko tried bribing us with GHS3000 each - Mahama Ayariga
Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga, has confirmed
that a quantum of money was given to the Chairman
of Parliament’s Appointments Committee, Joe Osei
Owusu, by embattled Energy Minister-designate,
Boakye Agyarko, to be distributed to the Minority
MPs on the committee with the intention of
influencing them to give him the nod so he could
be sworn in as Minister.

Mr Ayariga, who is a member of the Committee, told
Radio Gold in an interview on Friday, 27 January
that the Minority MPs outrightly rejected the
GHS3000 each which was enveloped for them when
they later found out from Mr Osei Owusu that the
money was coming from Mr Agyarko.

According to Mr Ayariga, the Minority MPs first
accepted the money because they were under the
impression that the money was their sitting
allowance but got alarmed and decided to return
the money after they heard rumours that the money
was coming from Mr Agyarko to bribe them.

“We were expecting our committee allowances from
the chairman so when we were called by our leader
to come and take our money we took it knowing that
that is our allowance so as for the quantum we
cannot tell how much money he might have given to
the chairman so there are all sort of speculations
about what sort of quantum he is alleged to have
given but what we know is what came to us as
individuals, that is what we can bear testimony
to: whether it’s GHS1 or GHS2, no matter how
small it is, what we know is what was given to us
and we found out later that it was coming from him
so as for the quantum, it’s not important, for
me the most important thing is that we were
expecting to be given our committee sitting
allowances, and we were promised by our chairman
that it will come very soon, and we were called to
pick up money from our Whip, we picked it up and
assumed that it was our allowances and then later
we heard rumours in the house and we called our
leader and asked him where is the money coming
from, he said it came from the Chairman but
chairman said it was coming from Boakye Agyarko so
that is where we realised that we can't take money
from Boakye Agyarko, so we asked him to take his
money back, we are not interested. The quantum is
insignificant, even if he had brought GHS1million
we will still return it to him,” Mr Ayariga
said.

The committee has endorsed 8 out of the 13
nominees of President Nana Akufo-Addo who have so
far been vetted. The committee is divided against
passing Senior Minister-designate Yaw Osafo Marfo
and Mr Agyarko.

Source - classfmonline.com

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