{"id":448695,"date":"2017-12-20T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/100k-access-fee-minority-slams-ahenkorah\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:51:34","slug":"100k-access-fee-minority-slams-ahenkorah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/100k-access-fee-minority-slams-ahenkorah\/","title":{"rendered":"$100k &#8216;access fee&#8217;: Minority slams Ahenkorah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/28609586.295.jpg\" alt=\"AblakwaAhenkorah Fight\" title=\"AblakwaAhenkorah Fight\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Deputy Trade Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah and Kudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North Tongu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513785094_191_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The leadership of the Minority in Parliament has condemned verbal attacks launched by Deputy Trade Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah against North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, an incident which nearly degenerated into fisticuffs on Tuesday, 19 December.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that an interview session with a section of the media by Mr Ablakwa on the $100,000 \u2018presidential access fee\u2019 saga, was interrupted by a fuming Ahenkorah, who, but for the timely intervention of Tamale North MP, Alhassan Suhuyini, would have physically assaulted Mr Ablakwa in parliament\u2019s lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Class News, Deputy Minority leader, James Klutse Avedzi said Mr Ablakwa reserves the right to report the matter to the Speaker of Parliament or the Privileges Committee for appropriate sanctions against Mr Ahenkorah.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Communications Director of the presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin, has said the President had no idea whatsoever that expatriates were charged $100,000 to sit close to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026We want to be clear that we heard it just like almost everybody from the MP for Asawase on the floor of parliament and also through the media. The president had no knowledge whatsoever about the fact that people were being charged $100,000 to sit by him on a table, he had no idea whatsoever,\u201d Mr Arhin stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The President through the Chief of Staff has directed the Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kyerematen \u201cto come up and brief him and tell him whatever is entailed in this issue because just like you, we have no idea, absolutely no idea, the president had no idea whatsoever that a certain amount of money was being charged by anybody for people to sit by him,\u201d Mr Arhin reiterated in an interview with Emefa Apawu on Accra-based Joy FM on Wednesday, 20 December.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Arhin said \u201cthe president will make a final decision on that matter\u201d, once Mr Kyerematen has briefed him by 5p.m. today, Wednesday, 20 December.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Arhin said the President\u2019s query to Mr Kyerematen is to enable him understand all the issues related to the alleged sale of access to him at the recently held award ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGhanaHomePage%2Fvideos%2F1740609526016438%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 45 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017 Source: classfmonline.com 2017-12-20 Deputy Trade Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah and Kudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North Tongu The leadership of the Minority in Parliament has condemned verbal attacks launched by Deputy Trade Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah against North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, an incident which nearly degenerated into fisticuffs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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