{"id":1237234,"date":"2022-10-28T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/we-were-not-bribed-to-drop-demand-for-ofori-attas-removal-npp-mp\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:33:30","slug":"we-were-not-bribed-to-drop-demand-for-ofori-attas-removal-npp-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/we-were-not-bribed-to-drop-demand-for-ofori-attas-removal-npp-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"We were not bribed to drop demand for Ofori-Atta\u2019s removal \u2013 NPP MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Andy-Appiah-Kubi-Asante-Akim-North-MP-1024x540.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Asante Akim North MP, Andy Appiah-Kubi has dismissed claims that the Majority caucus was induced with money to abandon their demand for the removal of the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid we take money? You think we will do that? I will come out with information that we are beyond the bribe; our motivation is not the financial inducement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have money in our pockets but at least we have a conscience,\u201d he told Raymond Acquah on JoyNews\u2019 Upfront on Thursday, October 27.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Majority MPs numbering about 95 backtracked on their request for the immediate dismissal of Ken Ofori-Atta and the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Charles Adu-Boahen, over their poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>They said the continuous stay of Ken Ofori-Atta in the office is delaying the IMF bailout the country is seeking due to the fact that the Minister has lost all credibility.<\/p>\n<p>But after a meeting with the President, the <strong>NPP MPs reached a compromise<\/strong> to allow the embattled ministers to stay in office till after the IMF negotiation is done.<\/p>\n<p>Some Ghanaians have suggested that money might have changed hands but Mr Appiah-Kubi has denied the claims.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>He threatened to take on anybody who fuels such accusations or plans to influence any of the MPs leading the charge with money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet anybody give me any sense of accusing anyone of us [majority MPs] of having taken anything and I challenge anybody to do that, and I will be happy if somebody does that because I want to have the opportunity to prove something.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>We are not motivated by any materialistic considerations. We will not reduce ourselves to that situation. I warn you that anybody who wants to attempt, please be advised,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asante Akim North MP, Andy Appiah-Kubi has dismissed claims that the Majority caucus was induced with money to abandon their demand for the removal of the Finance Minister. \u201cDid we take money? You think we will do that? I will come out with information that we are beyond the bribe; our motivation is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1237236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}