General News of Monday, 5 September 2016Source: classfmonline.comFord probe: Surcharge Minority – GroupMinority Leader in Parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-BonsuThe Minority Leader of Ghana’s parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, should be surcharged for the cost incurred by the state in recalling members of the house to consider a motion to have President John Mahama investigated over the Ford Expedition SUV gifted him by a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, Strategic Thinkers Network (STRANEK), has said. But STRANEK in a statement co-signed by Nii Tettey Tetteh and Charles Kwadade on Monday September 5 said they deemed it fit to ask the Minority leader to humbly pay for the “financial loss” he caused to the state. “The invoking of article 112 (3) of the 1992 Constitution and Order 38 (1) of the standing orders of Parliament by the Minority is needless per our observation as a think tank. No wonder, the Speaker of Parliament shot down the motion. It is for this reason amid others … [that] we advocate … the Minority leader [should] to be surcharged…”

Source: GhanaWeb September 05, 2016 07:52 UTC