According to the lawyer, the petition is requesting for the matter to be forwarded to the Privileges Committee for further scrutiny.
“It is no more an intention. We have actually submitted to the speaker a petition, a full blown petition. We didn’t have to worry ourselves too much in terms of the details because it is obvious. I mean a member of the panel examining facts has shown this obvious bias. He says that no matter we say he won’t change his mind. He believes that Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu acted fraudulently in the transaction that she did.” he pointed out.
Nana Ato Dadzie noted that “it is nothing personal. We respect him, he is an honorable person, but he goofed. We don’t think that he is a fit and proper person at this stage to continue to sit on this matter.”
Madam Betty Mould Iddrisu demanded the MP be forced to step down from the committee when she appeared before it on the controversial 94 million euro CP judgment debt payout.
In the purported telephone conversation, the Member of Parliament said: “maybe she was uninformed or was misled. For me it was a serious criminal offence to evade tax and no country will allow such a thing to happen. I want to point it out to Madam Betty Mould Iddrisu that whether she likes it or not I will continue to use the word fraudulent because that transaction with CP was a fraudulent one I will never change that word”.
Nana Ato Dadzie, in an exclusive interview on Citi FM’s news and current affairs programme The Big Issue however said “in law when you say a person has acted fraudulently then you are accusing him or her of a crime.”
“There is a constitutional provision that says that the human rights application cuts across board. It cuts across all officials and bodies which operate at the legislature, at the Executive and at the Judiciary level oblige to behave and comply with the basic rules and human rights which we have adopted as a people. So for PAC to say that they are not liable to it, it flies in the face of the Constitution.”
The lawyer however noted that “we will continue to appear before the Committee. There is nothing for us to hide, we have told them in so many words.”
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