MPs alleged to have received double salaries while serving as Ministers in the Mahama administration will not go scot-free, Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has said.
Some of those MPs include Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, Second Deputy Speaker Alban Bagbin, who nurses a presidential ambition, as well as Wa Central MP and ex-minister of Public-Private Partnerships, Dr Rashid Pelpuo; Inusah Fuseini, former Lands and Natural Resources Minister; Comfort Doyoe Ghansah, former Minister of State in charge of Social and Allied Institutions; Mr Eric Opoku, former Brong Ahafo Regional Minister and Fifi Kwetey, former Deputy Minister of Finance.
They have been interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service and cautioned for stealing.
The affected MPs and the Minority in parliament have denied the allegation, insisting this is a clear case of political witch-hunt.
Twenty-five lawmakers were initially invited by the CID, but 18 of them were later asked to disregard that invitation.
At a press conference addressed by the Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minority said the move was an attempt by government to hound and intimidate them into silence by using the CID to embark on a fruitless fishing expedition against their colleagues.
Despite their denial of wrongdoing, Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has said his opposite number met President Akufo-Addo privately to beg for mercy, a claim Mr Iddrisu has denied, although he admitted having a private conversation with the president but the contents of which he refused to divulge.
Source: classfmonline
