As one who has fought his way up to be called as witness to testify in the ongoing bribery scandal, many would have expected Hon. Okudzeto Ablakwa to have seriously studied and pieced together facts, that would exonerate him before the committee investigating the bribery case.
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency was earlier, denied an opportunity to testify in the bribery case by the five-member committee approved by Parliament.
He corroborated an allegation by another minority member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga that the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko attempted to bribe members of the Appointments Committee to ease his approval through the chairman of the committee, Joe Osei Owusu.
He however managed to overturn the verdict through his lawyers when they wrote a letter to the committee indicating that the testimony given by the first witness, Hon. Osei-Owusu were not exactly true hence the need for him (Ablakwa) to defend himself.
Mr Osei-Owusu had informed the committee that Mr. Ablakwa had told him the torrid allegation was a joke prompting the latter to react to the news through his lawyers.
But Hon. Ablakwa explained that he is "very hurt" about the kind of testimony Hon. Osei-Owusu shared when he appeared before the special committee investigating the bribery allegations.
“..I want to go and set the record straight. I don’t know why Hon. Joe Osei Owusu did that to me. Last time he did that to Hon. Ayariga and now, he has done the same to me”, he sadly said.
In an intriguing interview on Radio Gold, Hon. Ablakwa shockingly revealed that he has not taken any extra classes or made time to prepare to face the committee when called upon.
According to him “When you are speaking the truth, you know the truth and you are only recounting the truth; you don’t need any preparation. It is all about what you have seen, what you know; so you don’t need any preparation.”
The former deputy Educational Minister noted that he would have made time to prepare for the Joe Ghartey led committee if he had previously told a lie.
“So when you are telling lies or fabricating stories that is when you always have to remember and cast your mind back to the lies you told previously to know you are consistent”, he said.
He added that ever since the scandal broke out, he and his other colleagues; notably Hon. Mahama Ayariga and Hon Alhassan Suhuyini have been speaking the raw truth.
“We have been speaking the truth to this matter always and it is all about individual opportunity to recount the truth. There is no need for any preparation”, he added.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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They make their voices heard on Radio Gold because of search Headlines that puts a twist to everything. On the headline I believe the editor deliberately did that for reasons best known to the editor. Can we still make our cases strongly without insults. Please
This is a village news media, the people including their boss are raw villagers,just spreading rumors and spoiling journalism
The most deceptive headline in the history of journalism
Why do we have too many 'illiterates' at peacefmonline? How much did NPP and Agyarko pay those who put the headline together? Please peacefmonline elevate yourselves from bad journalism.
Shocking headline. Where is the link to the story. Do these guys actually go to Ghana Institute of Journalism.
Okudzeto Ablakwa is citing three members of NDC including himself who have lied blatantly in the past as part of their political culture. They never bothered to retract or apologise when they were exposed. It is hard to trust these same guys who are now claiming to be telling the truth.... their version of the truth is heavily discounted so what do we have left with. Their words against those they have accused. Why is it that the only platform that believes them is RADIO GOLD?...another discredited platform.
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This headline is not matching with the content. Is this what you were taught in school? You guys are a disgrace to your profession. Continue fooling over there. Soon luck will elude you and you will be crashed like an ant. ***barred word***
this peacefm guy paaa, how much were u also given to write this thrash???