There was drama in Ghana’s parliament on Thursday night when the lawmakers got angry and hurled insults at each other over a bribery allegation.
The parliament speaker, Mike Ocquaye had ordered that a committee investigates a claim by some of the MPs from the opposition party the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the country’s energy minister attempted giving bribe to secure his job.
The opposition MPs alleged that the said energy minister, Boakye Agyarko through leaders of the parliament’s appointments’ committee wanted to bribe the members of the committee to pass his nomination.
The adhoc committee that investigated the allegation however laid its report in parliament on Thursday stating that the MPs who made the allegation failed to proof their claims.
The committee described the allegation as a colossal lie and charged one of the MPs that made the claim Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga for contempt and suggested that he apologized to parliament and be reprimanded by the speaker.
Mahama Ayariga however questioned the authority of the committee to charge him with contempt in connection with the scandal.
The MPs were also divided over an apology he rendered over the issue. Mr Ayariga’s reaction infuriated some of his colleague MPs leading to exchange of insults among the lawmakers.
It took the intervention of the Speaker, to calm things down stop.
Source: Africafeeds.com
