{"id":462647,"date":"2018-02-08T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/cash-for-seat-ashim-morton-to-sue-ablakwa-muntaka\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:00:26","slug":"cash-for-seat-ashim-morton-to-sue-ablakwa-muntaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/cash-for-seat-ashim-morton-to-sue-ablakwa-muntaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-for-seat: Ashim Morton to sue Ablakwa, Muntaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  8 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>todaygh.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/36905788.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ashim Morton M\" title=\"Ashim Morton M\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President of the Millennium Excellence Foundation, Ashim Morton<\/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\/1518094826_994_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Millennium Excellence Foundation, the organization that hosted the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, has said it is considering a court action against two minority Members of Parliament (MPs) over the cash-for-seat allegations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawyer for the foundation, Peter Zwennes, the MPs \u2013 Muntaka Mubarak and Okudzeto Ablakwa should be stripped of any parliamentary immunity to enable them drag them to court, because their actions were \u201cirresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe propagation of such irresponsible and destructive falsehood made against my client should not be availed the cloak of parliamentary immunity which if had been said in anywhere else in the open will certainly be giving rise to a meritorious court action in defamation. The foundation is still considering its options and they are still available to us,\u201d the lawyer stated at a press conference in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation\u2019s press conference comes after a committee set up to investigate the claims exonerated them and the Trade Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Millennium Excellence Foundation and the Trade Ministry were alleged to have charged between $25,000 and $100,000, to enable expatriates to sit close to the President at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards held in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A parliamentary committee investigating the matter subsequently cleared the indicted stakeholders of any wrongdoing, but the Minority insisted that something untoward happened.<\/p>\n<p>The two minority members on the five member committee also released their version of report claiming the Majority tried to suppress the truth in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation\u2019s lawyer said despite the exoneration of the foundation, its president, \u201cAshim Morton, feels the reputation he has built for himself within a period of twenty years has been affected\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the untruths now having been laid to rest and though much gladdened by his exoneration, my client has found that this acquittal has come at a heavy cost to his hither to unsullied and unquestionable reputation. This not to mention the heavy cost that these false allegations have caused the country also to suffer in terms of the commitment of foreigners towards foreign direct investments, market confidence, and the image of the leadership of the republic of Ghana on the international scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter steadily building up his reputation of integrity\u2026over a period nearing two decades, it is an abysmal shame for the foundation to realize that some choose merely to see it as an institution worthy of sacrifice on the altar of common mischief for the sake of what they see as political expediency,\u201d he added.<\/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: 43 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 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 Thursday, 8 February 2018 Source: todaygh.com 2018-02-08 President of the Millennium Excellence Foundation, Ashim Morton Millennium Excellence Foundation, the organization that hosted the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, has said it is considering a court action against two minority Members of Parliament (MPs) over the cash-for-seat allegations. 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