They didn’t ask provoking questions – Gyampo chides Minority on censure c’tee

Ransford Yaw Gyampo, a professor at the University of Ghana, has slammed the Minority members of the Speaker of Parliament’s eight-member ad hoc committee formed to investigate the motion of censure filed for the removal of Ken Ofori-Atta as Minister of Finance.

Prof Gyampo questioned the competence of the Minority members on the committee, saying they couldn’t ask questions that would have exposed Mr. Ofori-Atta.

“I was wondering how they selected the group of people who went on to represent the Minority side,” he said on Saturday, December 10, on TV3/3FM’s The Keypoints.

“When they went there, it was clear that the charges leveled against the man were serious charges, and I was expecting them to be able to ask provoking follow-up questions in order to nail the man.”

“However, it appeared that they asked questions, that there were no serious follow-ups, and that what they did, in my opinion, was to create a platform for Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta to acquit himself by appealing to public sympathy.”

The ad hoc committee was formed by the Speaker of Parliament to give the Finance Minister a fair hearing before the motion of censure was considered.

The committee was co-chaired by Majority member Kobina Tahir Hammond of Adansi-Asokwa Constituency and Minority member Dr. Dominic Ayine of Bolgatanga East Constituency.

Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and Bernard Ahiafor represented the Minority group on the committee.

Patrick Yaw Boamah, Kwame Anyimadu Antwi, and Andrew Egyapa Mercer were the majority members.

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