A staunch member of the Progressive People’s Party, Mr. Charles Owusu has jumped to the defense of Mr. Boakye Ayarko following unsubstantiated reports that he tried bribing members of the appointments committee to approve his candidature.
He contends that he sees no reason a capable person would pay bribe to MPs when he knows that the vetting procedure used in the house, would allow him to appear before them for the second time even if he they refuse to pass him for the first time.
Secondly, Mr. Owusu explains that when it comes to numbers, NPP MPs exceed NDC MPs in the house which makes it easier for Mr. Agyarko to be passed without paying any form of bribe.
Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga, incurred the wrath of his colleague MPs when he alleged that envelopes containing GH¢3,000 each were distributed to members of the Appointments Committee of the House to approve the nomination of Boakye Agyarko as Minister of Energy.
Although Parliament is yet to conclude investigation and publish findings on the bribery allegations involving Mr. Boakye Agyarko and some leaders of the House, Mr. Charles Owusu has predicted Mr. Boakye Ayarko would be exonerated and come out as clean as a whistle.
In an interview with Peacefmonline.com, the PPP scribe noted that a resourceful person like Mr. Agyarko demonstrated during his vetting session which aired on national television that he over qualifies to be Ghana's Energy Minister.
“Boakye Agyarko would never pay bribe or a dime to convince MPs to approve his candidature. He is a good orator and on top of that, he has brilliant ideas that are workable to end this devastating power interruption that the NDC has left behind”.
Last week, the Bawku Central MP rattled Parliament when he alleged that Mr. Boakye Ayarko’s bribery attempt was made through the chairman of the committee, Hon. Osei Owusu.
The news which started on Radio Gold last Friday spread like wildfire and Hon. Osei Owusu was quick to react to it by claiming Mahama Ayariga’s allegation were “colossal untruth.”
He pressed on by requesting the speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye to grant him immunity to go to court and clear his bruised integrity in the bribery allegation that hit the committee he chairs.
Aside him, the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, has also denied sharing envelopes containing money to his colleagues on the Appointments Committee to influence Mr. Boakye Ayarko’s passage.
Happenings linked to the saga, convinces Mr. Charles Owusu that Mahama Ayariga would soon be shamed in public for forging his own story.
“Ayariga would soon be crying. He would cry like a baby. Machinations against a gem like Agyarko would never stand. It is sad a man of repute like him has been targeted by Ayariga. I don’t believe it would destroy him; he would grow stronger and serve Ghana diligently”.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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It beats the imaginations of some of us that a member with the majority in parliament will stoop so low by paying bribe before consideration for an appointment. We are waiting to see and hear the truthfulness in the whole saga.Which ever way it goes it shall be the scandal of the year 2017.
what sort of God are you worshiping.If Munkata can swear on the koran with impunity.I think Alhaji Suhini and Must drag Munkata to the chief imam to swear again. We are watching. Suhini your reputation is at stake.
Mahama Ayariga is a ***barred word*** liar. When the truth comes out, I suggest he is dismissed from Parliament and Joe Osei Owusu can then take him to court. Such a bad person
This can never be true because the sequence of events shows that Ayariga is a big fat liar. He's got that Okudzato supporting him just to stain Agyarko's reputation and that of this government. I am saying this because 1. If the minority even refuse to pass Agyarko's nomination, it will go to the floor of Parliament for Delibration and voting and with the Majority on Agyarko's side there is no way he will be stopped from becoming the Minister.So where is the wisdom to believe that he will give Bribe? 2. Ayariga is not new to the Parliament so why did he not follow the right process after the so called Bribe incident but he ended up talking about it at an FM station as Radio Gold? 3. Okudzato said he has returned his money but when he was going, he met Ayariga and took that of Ayariga and sent it to Hon Muntaka (Lies) where he met Nii Lantey at Mutaka's Office (Nii Lantey? must it tell us anything?) 4. Hon Muntaka denied any of such thing happening and as devoted Muslim swear with the Quaran. 5. Okudzato was asked to swear with his life if he believes he saying the truth on ADOM FM but he couldn't. 5. You have people like Kwesi Pratt now championing this issue from one media house to another. A WORD TO THE WISE !!
What would be the verdict if the allegation of bribery turns out to be true? Comments so far are only focusing on the assumption that Hon Ayariga erred.
SOME GUYS ON THIS FORUM JUST TAKE DELIGHT IN INSULTS. THAT IS NOT RIGHT. LET US BEHAVE WITH SOME DECORUM. MEANWHILE, IT WILL BE A BIG STAIN TO THE REPUTATION OF AYARIGA IF IT IS FOUND OUT THAT HE COOKED THIS WHOLE THING WITH A MALICIOUS INTENT TO MALIGN AN HONOURABLE PERSON. HE MUST BE SEVERELY PUNISHED BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE HOUSE IF THE ALLEGATION IS FOUND OUT TO BE FALSE
Ayari-cough, Ayari-liar, ayari-hatred. Where from all these educated phuuuuuls? Let me tell you that no one or group of people can manupulate our electoral systerm anymore, and that is a clear indications that these barons will never come back to power now. May be after 16 years later.
You must be mentally retarded for comparing these 3 ***barred word*** to Meshack Shadrack and Abednego...When they were in power and they were Chopping our money left right center did they account for that. When the president was giving out V8s to non entities and doing other dubious deals in this country did they expose the president ...such ***barred word***
LOOK AT THE ***barred word*** IN GHANA. THIS CHARLS GUY WHOSE MOUTH IS LIKE A DRRUMM IS SAYS WHAT. HERE WE ARE AS A COUNTRY WHERE WE WANT EVERYONE TO TOLL THE LIKE OF LIES. WHY ARE YOU JUMPING TO THE DEFENSE OF THIS LIAR CALLED AGYARKO. JUST AS IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE, AYARIGA (SHADRACK), ABLAKWA (MERSCHAK) AND SUHINI (ABEDNEGO) WILL NEVER BOW TO ANY PRESURE UNTIL THE TRUTH IS REVEALED TO REDEEM THE IMAGE OF PARLIAMENT. WE TOLD GHANAIAN AND THEY DID NOT LISTEN. HERE WE HAVE THE ***barred word*** AND LIARS BACK IN GOVERNANCE.