North Tongu lawmaker, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is jeopardising his political career with his persistence in levelling false accusations against Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey regarding the purchase of a property in Oslo, Norway for a Chancery, Mr Frank Annoh-Dompreh, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament has said.
According to Mr Annoh-Dompreh, no agreement has been reached by the government for anybody to impute criminality in the first place.
Mr Ablakwa had accused Ms Ayorkor Botchwey of cost inflation in connection with Ghana’s attempt to buy a property in Norway to serve as its Chancery, an allegation the sector minister had denied.
Although the minister denied the accusations, Mr Ablakwa went a step further to petition President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to investigate the matter, a petition the president has dismissed as “empty of substance”.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, 20 December 2018, Mr Annoh-Dompreh, who is also the MP for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, said the conduct of Mr Ablakwa is destroying his own career as a young man.
“This clearly is an offer being put out there by an offeree, it has not been accepted, so, it cannot become a binding agreement. You don’t need to be a lawyer to know this. I called him [Ablakwa] and pointed it out to him that he may be doing his mischief but if he is not careful, he will destroy his reputation as a young man. There is no contract existing,” he said.
He added: “You have a minister that has been very cooperative to us, right from we touring the foreign missions, and any time we had called on her, she has been very cooperative.
“The ministry provided this information, and of course, a letter from the Ministry of Finance, which captured a certain GHS15 million. How on earth will anybody impute criminality or criminal intent to somebody who has been so transparent to us.
“You have written a letter demanding further and better particulars, she has followed up on the letter religiously and provided these further and better particulars. If the minister had an intent of defrauding the state, she wouldn’t have displayed all these figures to us.
“The so-called $16.5 million is the offeree’s offer being put on the table, it has not been accepted, so, it cannot become a binding agreement.”
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These npp mps are clowns. When they accused ndc of wrongdoings their political careers were still intact but when someone is exposing them for their fraudulent deals then they are destroying their political future. Very funny bunch of people. Their president thought journalists who supported him to oust mahama will always support him, so he keeps exonerating him criminal appointees. Wednesday journalists made him aware that they are not indebted to him and they would put him in check same way they did with mahama. The way he is behaving mahama will surely be supported by journalists to defeat him come 2020. This is Ghanaians you are dealing with.
Ablakwa is known for his false alarms. Even his own leader in parliament suffered from his regular irresponsible conduct. Didn't he accuse Muntaka of collecting bribes on their behalf and sharing? Didn't Ablakwa create 1.6 million jobs under 2yrs? Didn't he petition international bodies over an imaginary bond scandal? Didn't he promise to demonstrate across Ghana because the US has established a military base in Ghana? What has become of all these empty noises and sometimes threats? If he stops peddling those falsehoods, there will be nothing left for him to do. That's his hobby, let him flow.
WHAT IS THIS MP SAYING. WHAT HAS CHANGED?. IN THE BEGINNING YOU SAID THERE WAS CERTAINLY NO VALUE FOR MONEY IN THIS TRANSACTION, BUT IN A FEW DAYS YOUR LANGUAGE HAS CHANGED. WHY CAN'T LEADERS OF THIS COUNTRY SHOW LEADERSHIP BY ALWAYS PUTTING THE INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY FIRST ABOVE PARTISANSHIP?. DURING THE NDC TIME, YOU (NPP) ALWAYS HELL TO BREAK ANYTIME YOU SUSPECTED SOMETHING FISHY. DID THAT SPOIL YOUR POLITICAL CAREER?. NOW, YOU THINK OTHERS SHOULD KEEP QUIET AND ALLOW YOU DO THINGS WITHOUT CHECKS. IF IT ABOUT LIES, NPP HAS NO MORAL RIGHT TO TELL OTHERS NOT TO TALK WHEN THERE IS SUSPICION BECAUSE IT THAT SAME LIES THAT BROUGHT THEM TO POWER. YOU ROAD ON LIES AND CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MAHAMA TO WIN THE ELECTIONS AND SO FAR HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROOF A SINGLE CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST HIM. YOU SHOULD KNOW KARMA IS A BITCH.
It is true he is denting his political career. HE SHOULD TREAD CAUTIOUSLY.
NPP has disappointed us. stop telling lies and govern with decency and competency!
You are hanging the hanged 'dog' honorable MP 2020 is not far pls think of the future
If telling the TRUTH ends people’s careers then our politics has no future!! The NPP is going beyond bounds!! Bare faced stealing is KILLING our country!!! You can’t see???!!!