{"id":1242969,"date":"2022-11-03T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/claim-that-a-businessman-attempted-to-bribe-npp-mps-to-be-investigated-majority-leader\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:04:56","slug":"claim-that-a-businessman-attempted-to-bribe-npp-mps-to-be-investigated-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/claim-that-a-businessman-attempted-to-bribe-npp-mps-to-be-investigated-majority-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Claim that a businessman attempted to bribe NPP MPs to be investigated \u2013 Majority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"377\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu-696x377.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, Majority Leader<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, says investigations will be conducted into claims that a businessman tried to bribe some New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentarians to rescind their demand for the dismissal of Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>The Suame lawmaker gave the assurance while addressing journalists in parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated the allegation has reached the corridors of the leadership and the need for a probe to ascertain the truth of the matter. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith particular reference to the attempted bribery, it\u2019s come before me. We\u2019ll investigate if it is true and if it is true, establish the motive of that person. Sometimes, these things come up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you remember the issue of a minister who was nominated to appear before the vetting committee? There was an allegation that he had attempted to bribe some people or influence some people. Eventually, it turned out to be \u2013 I will not say falsehood \u2013 but an untruth,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n<p>Amid the calls for Mr Ofori-Atta\u2019s resignation, the Majority Leader shockingly revealed that one of Ghana\u2019s wealthy businessmen attempted to intervene to prevent the Minister from being axed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Businessman tried to mediate on Ken Ofori-Atta\u2019s behalf \u2013 Majority Leader reveals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Akufo-Addo did not speak on Ofori-Atta\u2019s sack in address<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with JoyNews, he explained that in the heat of the arguments in parliament, the businessman met some of the legislators and \u201ctried to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, however, did not state what exactly the move was, the form it took nor did he mention the said businessman\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"CaKpelzIPYM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"False News: Kaneshie court fines evangelist for publishing false news against prophet (2-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CaKpelzIPYM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, Majority Leader Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, says investigations will be conducted into claims that a businessman tried to bribe some New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentarians to rescind their demand for the dismissal of Ken Ofori-Atta. The Suame lawmaker gave the assurance while addressing journalists in parliament on Thursday. He indicated the allegation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242969","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\/1242969","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=1242969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}