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The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, K.T. Hammond has suggested that he is unaware of the current fuel prices because he does not have a car.<\/p>\n
In a sharp response to the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, on whether he had noticed the current fuel prices, during the committee hearing on the motion of censure against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, Mr K.T. Hammond said \u201cI don\u2019t buy fuel, I don\u2019t have a car so I don\u2019t buy fuel\u201d.<\/p>\n
The public hearing of the committee on the censure motion against Mr Ofori Atta kicked off on a rough note Tuesday morning after clashes between the Minority and Majority members on the committee on the mode of the submission of evidence.<\/p>\n
Even before being sworn in, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu and Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, who were the first to appear before the committee, wished to tender evidence which was contested by the Chairman, KT Hammond and some majority members.<\/p>\n
Minority members of the committee appealed for flexibility and urgent handling of the allegations against the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that we should be so rigid. It is being to appear like we just want to place impediments in the way,\u201d the North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said.<\/p>\n
The majority members on the committee pushed for a formal notice of the evidence to be tendered before proceedings continue.<\/p>\n
The Sekondi MP, Andrew Agyapa Mercer, for example, argued that the committee was a quasi-judicial proceeding and required conditions for a fair hearing for the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n
In a retort to this argument, later on, a member of the Minority and one of the chairs of the committee, Dr. Dominic Ayine, argued that the committee was an administrative body and not a judicial-adjacent one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a political body mandated with the task of investigating\u2026 that is the essential task we are here to investigate this morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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