Chairman of the parliamentary select committee on roads and transport, and Member of parlament for Ayensuano in the Eastern region, Hon. Ayeh-Paye Samuel has said that allegations of bribery against parliament on the scrapped mandatory towing levy should be treated with contempt.
The Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, Abronye DC alleged that MP’s on the Road and Transport Committee in parliament took monies as bribe from the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) to implement the controversial mandatory towing levy.
But Hon. Ayeh-Paye Samuel says people like Abronye DC who made those allegations are ignorant about the various processes in parliament and should be ignored.
”The allegations are unfortunate but I will treat it with all the contempt it deserves because chasing a mad person with your nakedness in public for stealing your clothes would be inappropriate”
Hon. Hon. Ayeh-Paye explained that the select committee on roads has no power to make any changes to the document which was passed in 2012 except the executive and supreme court, so those allegations are based on ignorance of the dealings in parliament.
”The leadership of parliament approved the contents of the documents before it became public and they advised that, since parliament could not stand against itself, the executive or the supreme court would have to make changes to it if necessary”, he explained.
He charged Abronye to send any evidence of bribery against the committee to either CHRAJ or EOCO for redress.
Source: otecfmghana.com
