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Kwaku Agyemang-Manu<\/strong><\/p>\n All 137 members of the Minority in Parliament have signed a motion for a vote of censure in the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, who is also the Member of Parliament for Dormaa Central.<\/p>\n The motion was submitted on Wednesday, February 16 via a memorandum to the Speaker of Parliament.<\/p>\n According to the motion, Mr Agyemang-Manu undertook a business transaction as Ghana\u2019s Minister of Health without prior approval of Parliament contrary to Article 81 of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n He has also been accused of signing a procurement agreement without prior approval from the Board of the\u00a0Public Procurement Authority\u00a0(PPA).<\/p>\n The Minority also accuses the Health Minister of dishonesty, telling the Committee of Health that he procured the Sputnik-V vaccines at an ex-factory price of $10 per dose when they were procured at $19 and $18.5 per dose.<\/p>\n The Health Minister is also accused of fibbing and misrepresenting under oath, having made a $2.85 million initial payment to the private office of Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum when he told an ad hoc committee that no payment had been made.<\/p>\n The Minority accuses him of perjury. When he appeared before the nine-member bi-partisan committee on the procurement of the Sputnik-V vaccines, Mr. Agyemang-Manu said he was not himself when he decided because the country was in dire straits due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kwaku Agyemang-Manu All 137 members of the Minority in Parliament have signed a motion for a vote of censure in the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, who is also the Member of Parliament for Dormaa Central. The motion was submitted on Wednesday, February 16 via a memorandum to the Speaker of Parliament. According to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994347","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\/994347","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=994347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cThe above conduct, being in direct breach of the Constitution and laws passed by this Honourable House, the Minister of Health be removed from office as Minister by a vote of Censure passed by article 82 of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n