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Parliament on missing items
in Speaker’s residence
Accra, March 25, Ghanadot/GNA– The Parliamentary Service Board
would meet next week to discuss items worth more than 3.3
million Ghana cedis allegedly missing from the official new
residence of the former Speaker of Parliament.
The loss was detected after Mr. Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes
had vacated the newly built residence for Speakers of
Parliament.
The former Speakers, the late Mr. Justice Annan and Peter Ala
Adjetey lived in private residences.
Mr. Alban Bagbin, Majority Leader and the Minority Leader,
Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu confirmed this in separate interview
with the Ghana News Agency in Parliament on Wednesday.
Mr Bagbin said on March 10, this year, he led a team from
Parliament to take inventory at the Speaker’s residence and
that, Mr. Sakyi Hughes, the number three gentleman of the State
had vacated his residence he (Bagbin), was shocked to have found
the rooms virtually empty; “not even a pin could be found
there.”
The Majority Leader
presented to the Ghana News Agency a list of a host of items
that were missing in the rooms some of which included
refrigerators, ovens, washing machines and cooking utensils and
electronic gadgets.
Some of them are gymnastic items, beds, fire extinguishers and
conference room and other furniture.
Mr Bagbin said even if the Chenery-Hesse Committee Report became
implementable the former Speaker was to be entitled to two cars
but two of VW Passat cars had been retrieved and a new Toyota
Landcrusher and a Tuareq VW car, which cost 1.8 billion Ghana
cedis could still not been traced.
According to Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the incident might have
happened because somewhere along the line there was a
communication gap.
He explained that sometime ago a meeting was held to decide
whether, when the Speaker was leaving office some of the items
could be sold to him at a depreciated value because there was a
likelihood that the new Speaker might not like to use some of
the used items.
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