Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
MAJORITY LEADER Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has hinted that investigations would be carried out on allegations that said a wealthy businessman tried to influence some NPP MPs over the demand to sack the Finance Minister.
In an interview with journalists yesterday, he said the allegations could be untrue, hence the need to probe further to reveal all the facts on the issue.
“With particular reference to the attempted bribery, it’s come before me. We’ll investigate it if true, and if it is true, establish the motive of that person. Sometimes, these things come up. 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 I will not say falsehood, but an untruth,” he said.
According to him, the investigation would also focus on finding out the motives of the said businessman.
In a related interview on PM Express on Joy News on Wednesday, the Majority leader said that though he knew the businessman, he had not spoken to him and would not want to be presumptuous as it could also be speculation.
“He is a businessman that I know, honestly, I have not spoken to him ever since I heard that matter. I was told that he came here trying to mediate in his own way, he is a wealthy businessman and came here to do what he thinks could be done in his own way. He was told by the people not to involve himself so, he went away; so that’s all I know.”
BY Ebenezer K. Amponsah