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Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has rubbished calls on CHRAJ to look at the Joe Ghartey Committee report in arriving at a decision on whether or not to launch another investigation into the Parliamentary bribery scandal.

Kweku Baako described any such move as a total "waste of time".

According to him, the Joe Ghartey Committee report made an in-depth investigation into the scandal which should not be undermined.

Dissecting the report and the bribery scandal, Mr. Baako believed due diligence had been done by the Committee; in that, it gave all parties involved equal opportunities to feed it with substantial evidence on the issue.

Reading portions of the report which indicated that all interested parties were permitted to give a written account to the Committee, Mr. Baako wondered why the alleged witnesses to the bribery scandal failed to present their memos to the Committee to help with the investigations.

He therefore admonished the minority, particularly North Tongu MP, Samuel Ablakwa, Alhassan Suhuyini and Mahama Ayariga himself among others in Parliament to stop discrediting the report because they had every opportunity to prove otherwise that the Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko indeed attempted to bribe them or rather bribed them.

“They shouldn’t waste our ears. Why didn’t they send the evidence . . . these are Members of Parliament, we’re talking about. We’re talking about Members of Parliament, not of some kindergarten school.”

To Kweku Baako, the challenge by those MPs on the minority side that the report didn't deal thoroughly with the issue is "so annoying. It’s so [so] annoying. It’s an insult to our intelligence as a people . . . What is this? What are they doing to us? This is an assault on our intelligence and our spiritual beings. They’re killing us with such infantile nonsense. I mean what is happening to Ghana. We’re talking about Members of Parliament, I repeat not kindergarten pupils.”