{"id":453995,"date":"2018-01-11T07:46:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/11\/cash-for-seat-committee-starts-sitting-today\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:46:34","slug":"cash-for-seat-committee-starts-sitting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/11\/cash-for-seat-committee-starts-sitting-today\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cash for seat\u2019 Committee starts sitting today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/parliament.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>The five-member Parliamentary ad-hoc committee investigating the cash for seat saga will commence its public sitting today, Thursday January 11, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Aaron Oquaye set up the bi-partisan committee to investigate allegations that the Trade Ministry extorted a whopping $100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to President Akufo Addo at the recently held Ghana Expatriates Business Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The committee whose sitting will be opened to the public was formed after an emergency recall of the House at the behest of the minority, who have insisted there was a wrongdoing on the side of the ministry .<\/p>\n<p>The Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen, his deputies as well as some of the business owners who attended the event are expected to be questioned \u00a0by the Ameyaw Kyeremeh-led committee. Other members of the committee are Dr. Assibey Yeboah, Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament, and Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, MP for Adentan.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker has said he expects the committee to be professional and timely with their work. Their report is expected on January 24.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Presidency has cleared the Trade ministry of any wrongdoing in the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facts, as reported to the president, do not disclose any wrongdoing on the part of the Minister or any government official,\u201d a statement from the Information minister said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\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>The five-member Parliamentary ad-hoc committee investigating the cash for seat saga will commence its public sitting today, Thursday January 11, 2018. Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Aaron Oquaye set up the bi-partisan committee to investigate allegations that the Trade Ministry extorted a whopping $100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to President Akufo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":424676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}