GHANA’S Members of Parliament (MPs) have called on the President John Dramani Mahama to institute a committee to investigate the former Minister of Youth and Sports, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah over a corruption scandal.
Mr Ankrah who is a Minister of State at the Presidency, the minority MPs say should be compelled by the President to step aside for the probe.
Their demands follow revelations that 100 thousand cedis (Ghana currency) was paid to the former sports minister as production cost by E-volution, a company that won a 1 million cedis contract to provide service during the 2014 World Cup.
Mr Ankrah has since denied the claim but Dominic Nitiwul, Deputy Minority insisted that it was time for the President to demonstrate that the World Cup Commission was not a smokescreen to cover up alleged acts of corruption by his right hand men.
The three-member Commission was constituted by the President to investigate circumstances surrounding Ghana’s botched and scandalous 2014 World Cup participation.
“We want to let the president to know that we still believe the president wants to cover up political appointees and this shocking revelation that has come this morning vindicates what we have said,” he stated.
“The president set up that Commission for a cover up. He should prove the skeptical minority wrong that it was not a cover up,” Mr Niwul challenged.
He wondered why the president hastily reassigned the Sports minister and his deputy shortly after the World Cup scandal.
If that was not a cover up the president must prove to Ghanaians, he stated.
He said the scandal is a “purely criminal matter” and the president and the police must show leadership.
African Eye News.com
