{"id":342248,"date":"2017-01-31T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/01\/31\/agyarko-shouldnt-resign-ghana-integrity-initiative-boss\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:37:24","slug":"agyarko-shouldnt-resign-ghana-integrity-initiative-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/01\/31\/agyarko-shouldnt-resign-ghana-integrity-initiative-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Agyarko shouldn\u2019t resign &#8211; Ghana Integrity Initiative boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 31 January 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-01-31<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/79736591.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ofori Kwafo New\" title=\"Ofori Kwafo New\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mrs Ofori Kwafo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=146252114537294\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=146252114537294\"><br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1485859044_890_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> It will be out of place for the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, to step down or be sacked by the President due to his alleged involvement in the bribery scandal that has hit the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Linda Ofori Kwafo, Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, has said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been calls on the minister to step aside as investigations are carried out into the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, anti-corruption crusader, Vitus Azeem on Monday, 30 January told Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5FM that: \u201cThe president probably needs to hold on or probably withdraw his nominee (appointee) for now until the investigation is carried out and the person has been exonerated or otherwise implicated. If he (President) thinks the allegations are credible, I think that is the best way to go about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Mrs Ofori Kwafo told Acccra-based TV3 on Tuesday, 31 January that: \u201cI will not agree that the honourable (Agyarko) should step down or be sacked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She further indicated that \u201cparliament cannot be a judge in their own court,\u201d therefore, an independent body should be tasked to investigate the bribery allegations.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, 27 January, Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga alleged that Boakye Agyarko, Minister of Energy, whose approval was frozen pending the determination of certain issues, dished out GHS3000 as bribe to each of the minority members on the committee with the aim to influence them so they approve his nomination without further delay.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ayariga claimed the money was given to Committee Chair Joe Osei Owusu by Mr Agyarko who in turn channeled it through Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak to the MPs, who, according to the Bawku Central MP, subsequently rejected it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 24 updated by: 1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 31 January 2017 Source: Classfmonline.com 2017-01-31 Mrs Ofori Kwafo It will be out of place for the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, to step down or be sacked by the President due to his alleged involvement in the bribery scandal that has hit the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Linda Ofori Kwafo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Agyarko shouldn\u2019t resign - Ghana Integrity Initiative boss - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/01\/31\/agyarko-shouldnt-resign-ghana-integrity-initiative-boss\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Agyarko shouldn\u2019t resign - Ghana Integrity Initiative boss - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Tuesday, 31 January 2017 Source: Classfmonline.com 2017-01-31 Mrs Ofori Kwafo It will be out of place for the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, to step down or be sacked by the President due to his alleged involvement in the bribery scandal that has hit the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Linda Ofori Kwafo, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/79736591.295.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/31\\\/agyarko-shouldnt-resign-ghana-integrity-initiative-boss\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/01\\\/31\\\/agyarko-shouldnt-resign-ghana-integrity-initiative-boss\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Agyarko shouldn\u2019t resign &#8211; 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