News:
August 15, 2018
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has said with the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, recommendations made by the Public Accounts Committee relating to infractions where one needs to be prosecuted can be taken up by the office.
According to the Minority Leader a Committee of Parliament is not cloth with a prosecutorial power.
He made this remark at a media encounter with leadership of Parliament to assess what the House had been able to achieve at the end of the second meeting of the session of the seventh Parliament of the fourth Republic.
Members of the Parliamentary Press Corps wanted to know how the PAC is dealing with recommendations it makes to the plenary of its public which keeps occurring, year after year when the Auditor General’s report is being worked on.
Mr. Haruna Iddrisu noted that Parliament is a partner when it comes to fighting corruption which state institutions can depend on.
We have the obligation to work with the OSP and work with the Auditor General to correct the wrongs; very soon we would look at the report of 2017 and we should be good to go.
On the issue of Ghana’s former ambassador to the United Kingdom Victor Smith calling for prosecution of corrupt MPs, “if he has any evidence let him submit same to the Special Prosecutor to look into any matter affecting any legislator, I am not sure the Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu would go on a speculative mission”, he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com