Invitation from the CID to ex- speaker unnecessary-Minority
leader
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot
Accra, May 26, Ghanadot - The Minority
Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has asked the
Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police
Service to stop prying in the matter
involving the former Speaker of Parliament, Ebenezer Begyina
Sekyi Huges.
According to him, Parliamentarians have not told them they are
incompetent or incapable of handling
the matter, thus the CID should leave the matter to the house
The matter, he said, was still
in the hands of Parliament and since
the ex-speaker has not refused to cooperate with
the house the situation should not
warrant a takeover by police.
“Parliament’s own decision or conclusion on the matter may not
be the finality, so we may arrive at a decision, and further to
that decision, some further actions could to be taken…
“Let nobody hijack it and let it appear that
Parliament is incapable of handling the matter. That is
my worry; and I think that it would be eroding the integrity and
independence of parliament.”
Mr Sekyi Hughes was over the weekend invited by the CID to
ostensibly explain why he unlawfully took away state property
upon his retirement from office.
The Parliamentary Service Board is expected to convene an
emergency meeting today to take a final decision on the matter.
This follows the ex-Speaker’s response to the findings of the ad
hoc committee investigating the matter, in which he has claimed
he only took what had been granted him by a memo submitted to
the House by the Clerk of Parliament.
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, speaking on Joy FM conceded that the
Service Board made a mistake in coming out with its findings on
the matter without the participation of the former Speaker.
“What we should have done was to have invited him on the onset;
maybe, formerly write to him that maybe after you presented your
keys to us, officers went there and these items were not in
place, what is your response.”
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