{"id":449336,"date":"2017-12-22T15:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/cash-for-seat-trade-minister-says-ghc2-6m-was-raised\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:17:19","slug":"cash-for-seat-trade-minister-says-ghc2-6m-was-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/cash-for-seat-trade-minister-says-ghc2-6m-was-raised\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-for-seat: Trade Minister says GHC2.6m was raised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 22 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/71666777.295.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Kyeremanten Poerl\" title=\"Alan Kyeremanten Poerl\" width=\"295\" height=\"204\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen<\/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\/1513955839_976_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Trades Minister, Alan Kyerematen, has published his response to the query from the Presidency about his involvement in the controversial $100,000 charged expatriates for access to Akufo-Addo during an awards event.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency has stated that officials at the Trade Ministry did no wrong in commercialising the Presidential Table at the recent Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA).<\/p>\n<p>The Minority had accused the Ministry of Trade and Industry of charging expatriates between 25,000 and 100,000 dollars, to offer them seats close to the President at the event.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the fees charged at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards were not the kind of fees approved by Parliament, and that the monies were also not accounted for in the Internally Generated Funds (IGF) of the Ministry\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement, the government said, \u201c the facts, as reported to the president, do not disclose any wrongdoing on the part of the minister of any government official\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has therefore asked the minister to put those facts before the Ghanaian people,\u201d a statement signed by the Information minister said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Kyrematen\u2019s outfit published the response on Thursday, revealing that an amount of GH? 2,667, 215.00 was raised against an expenditure of GH? 2, 367, 426.06.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 50 --><\/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 Friday, 22 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-22 Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen Trades Minister, Alan Kyerematen, has published his response to the query from the Presidency about his involvement in the controversial $100,000 charged expatriates for access to Akufo-Addo during an awards event. 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