The Minority in Parliament have called for an emergency sitting to investigate the recent corruption allegations leveled against the leadership of the NPP concerning monies collected from business men in order to allow them sit next to the president.

Leadership of the minority in parliament were first to point fingers at President Akufo Addo and the Ministry of Trade and Industry  for allegedly extorting monies from business expatriates before giving them access to the president's table.

Trade and Industry minister Alan Kyeremanteng refuted the allegations in the statement but the minority insists there must be a full fleshed investigation of the issue.

The Minority, in a memo sent to the Speaker of Parliament have asked speaker Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye to summon a meeting of Parliament to consider the matter.

 The Member of Parliament for the Asawase constituency, Muntaka Mubarak and his counterpart from North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who signed the memo believe the House must take urgent action on the matter which it has spoken against for the past few weeks.

The Minority is challenging the Trade Ministry’s decision to levy some expatriates who attended the recently held Ghana Expatriate Business Awards which had President Akufo-Addo in attendance.

According to the Minority, expatriates were charged between $25,000 and $100,000 to reserve seats at the event.

We can prove Trade Ministry extortion claims 

The Minority in Parliament has also said they are ready to appear before any investigative body to provide evidence of extortion in the allegations.

Ablakwa in a Citi News interview said they ready to appear before “any investigative body that wants to take this matter up seriously and over there, we will send the receipts and all the other information that we have.”


 

By Musah Abelyire/ghanaguardian.com