{"id":460860,"date":"2018-02-02T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T16:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/committee-to-present-cash-for-seat-report-to-parliament\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T16:10:57","slug":"committee-to-present-cash-for-seat-report-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/committee-to-present-cash-for-seat-report-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee to present \u2018Cash for Seat\u2019 report to Parliament"},"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,  2 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/74755965.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cash For Seat Comm\" title=\"Cash For Seat Comm\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The 5-member adhoc committee set up to probe $100,000 expatriates fee for seat claims<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517587857_42_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Five-Member Parliamentary Committee probing the \u2018Cash-for-Seat\u2019 allegations is expected to present its final report to Parliament on Friday, February 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the House would start the debate on the Committee\u2019s report on Tuesday, February 6, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader announced this on the floor of Parliament, saying that, the Committee had completed its work and was ready to submit the report to the House.<\/p>\n<p>He said the reason why the Committee could not lay the report on Thursday, February 1, as stated earlier, was due to the fact that, Dr Dominic Ayine, a member of the Committee had raised a couple of issues and so they agreed to meet and discuss those matters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said the debate on the report had been scheduled for next week Tuesday, in order to give Members of Parliament (MP) enough time to read the about 50-page report.<\/p>\n<p>He said since the probe started, all the Committee members had been working together until yesterday when Dr Ayine decided not to join them.<\/p>\n<p>He however assured that the Committee was determined to complete the report and submit it to the House as arranged.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which partnered the event organizers, Millennium Excellence Foundation, is alleged to have charged between $25,000 and $100,000, to enable expatriates to sit close to the President at the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation was first made by Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak in Parliament in December 2017 and was further reinforced by Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mubarak said the fees charged at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards were not approved by Parliament, adding that, the monies were also not accounted for in the Internally Generated Funds [IGF] of the Ministry\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Trade said it played no role in determining prices for seats at the event, and clarified that it only facilitated the implementation of a new initiative by the Millennium Excellence Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers of the Awards had also explained that no one paid to sit close to the President, and that the amount was raised from sponsorship through a fundraising at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament subsequently formed a five-member committee to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: -1 --><\/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 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