{"id":462299,"date":"2018-02-07T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/07\/cash-for-seat-kweku-baako-rips-minority-apart-over-animal-report\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:41:27","slug":"cash-for-seat-kweku-baako-rips-minority-apart-over-animal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/07\/cash-for-seat-kweku-baako-rips-minority-apart-over-animal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash for seat: Kweku Baako rips Minority apart over \u2018animal report\u2019"},"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,  7 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/85502981.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kweku Baako Newsfile 1\" title=\"Kweku Baako Newsfile 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Abdul Malik Kweku Baako<\/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\/1518014487_645_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper has described the Minority in Parliament\u2019s report on the cash for seat saga as despicable.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Malik Kweku Baako said the Minority\u2019s behaviour is unheard of and no serious-minded person should pay attention to their distraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is only one report [the one presented by the Committee]. What animal is the Minority report, what is that? We have to be serious in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is pathetic, I am so scandalized. There is nowhere in the standing orders where the Minority is allowed to present its own report after the Speaker has set a committee to investigate an issue,\u201d he said on Peace FM\u2019s morning show \u2018Kokroko\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Baako said the Minority, if they had genuine concerns, could have made that known to the committee which will, in turn, add those dissenting views to the main report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a decent, refined approach in terms of Parliamentary work,\u201d he said, adding that holding a press conference and presenting what they claim to be their own report is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The ad-hoc committee set up by the Speaker of Parliament to probe an allegation of cash for seats levelled against the Trades Ministry following the Expatriate Business awards last year presented its report to the House on Tuesday, but not without some drama.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority walked out after a Minority member on the Committee Dr Dominic Ayine complained inputs from his side of the House were not captured in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee\u2019s report exonerated Trades Minister, Alan Kyerematen and officials of the Trades Ministry but the Minority is unimpressed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference held after boycotting a debate on the report presented to Parliament, Dr Ayine, accused the Chairman of the committee of refusing to incorporate the views of the Minority in the report.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Majority had deviated from the substance of the investigation and hushed up ethical and legal matters.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ayine said per the transcripts of evidence available, the Minority had concluded that in the design of the package, the MEF assigned price tags of $50, 000, $70,000 and $100,000 for seats close to the President.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/tUf0Cczw-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr Baako who doubts that the Trades Ministry was ever at fault, said if even the Minority had issues, they could have presented their disapproval in a more decent manner.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the conduct of the Minority from the moment they levelled the allegations through to the end.<\/p>\n<p>He said although the entire process did not make sense, he supported the setting up of the committee to \u201cexpose their mischief through a transparent process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing a similar bribery allegation against the Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko last year, the veteran journalist said the Minority have a skewed agenda they are pursuing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is deliberate, they don\u2019t care. They are creating a critical mass of allegation borne out of allegations and defended by allegations. Whatever you do, subject it to any form of scrutiny, they don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the process of investigations, then they go and pick titbits of what they perceive as contradictions or inconsistencies and then they invite us into the realm of interrogating those ones. Substance ignored,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>For Mr Baako, the Minority has been exposed and he hopes that the public will not waste any time in listening to anything they have to say because \u201cthey don\u2019t have a case that is why they are playing tricks. It is only in fiction that we have a Minority report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/WGGslz0B-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 63 updated by: 63 --><\/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, 7 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-07 Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper has described the Minority in Parliament\u2019s report on the cash for seat saga as despicable. Abdul Malik Kweku Baako said the Minority\u2019s behaviour is unheard of and no serious-minded person should pay attention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":417919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462299","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=462299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}