A LETTER TO HARUNA IDDRISU AND HIS PEOPLE IN GHANA'S PARLIAMENT

Dear Minority Caucus..

Ghana's parliament is a house for honorable men/Women and i must say without fear of contradiction that, your conduct of late   is reducing the dignity accorded to your respective offices. It is unpaliamentary  to use unpalatable words on an honorable member on the floor of the house. It is in respect of this reason why i am drawing your attention to the unfortunate description of Hon.Lydia Seyram Alhassan as a "bloody widow". The offensive description of the wo

man is against the  custom and Traditions of our society. You knew that,today was going to be the swearing in of Hon.Lydia Seyram Alhassan as a new member of parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency following the demise of her late husband, Hon.Kyeremateng Agyarko but you chose to stage a walk out of the house with placards without any sensible reason.

On your placards, you described her as a "bloody widow" just because she won an election your candidate decided to pull out though,he was still on the ballot when the election was still ongoing. I carefully monitored proceedings today via my facebook page. The minority chief whip who was holding brief for Hon.Haruna Iddrisu indicated clearly to the speaker that, they were not going to be part of the swearing in of the woman because, the process that got her legitimately elected was marred with brutalities on some group of people.

Your placards sounded as if being a widow is a crime to humanity. May your wives never taste this irresponsible treatment meted out to Maa Lydia. What crime at all has she committed to deserve this senseless description?. When people were subjected to severe torture during the Talensi By election, the opposition then and now in government never pulled out of the election. Again after the election, the minority in parliament never boycotted the swearing in of B.T Baba.

The above tells me that, under your tenure as a government in power, you had a responsible minority in opposition. The minority we have today is always swimming in pettiness at any given point in time. Every single by election that was organised under Mahama and Mills was marred with violence yet, the minority then never boycotted any of the swearing in of those who were legitimately elected through a process that got alot of people injured.

The framers of the 1992 constitution thought it wise to give each and every constituency a representative who would champion the welfare and aspirations of his/her constituent and that is the reason why, we the good people of Ghana are being represented in parliament through our respective MP's. It is the tax payers money the government of Ghana uses to pay your allowance and salaries.

It is however sad to realise that, the very principle which underpins the  reason why you are representing  us in parliament has been substituted for recklessness. I have suffered the resistance to use hash words to describe your conduct today but because "you people" have decided to show immaturity, I would Proceed in that regard.

Your "senselessness" is seriously inimical and injurious to the good people Of Ghana which brings the dignity accorded to parliament and its image into disrepute, contempt, mockery and public ridicule so to speak. The entire minority is in contempt of parliament.

#We are sick and tired of a clueless and incompetent minority#

NAM 1’s accounts frozen – EOCO

Reliable information available to Adomonline.com indicates that the bank accounts of the embattled businessman, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, has been frozen.

A source at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) said they were in court to secure an order to freeze his other assets, pending investigations.

NAM 1 has been arrested in Dubai over a botched gold transaction far different from any Menzgold related issue.

But he has been charged with defrauding by false pretences after the gold-trading entity failed to pay its clients’ dividends or principal investments since August 2018.

Sensing danger, the Securities and Exchange Commission shut it down over regulatory infractions.

From that period, affected customers of Menzgold have held several demonstrations to demand their investments whiles pleading with the government to intervene and retrieve their monies for them.

The government has repeatedly said taxpayers’ money will not be used to rescue the affected customers but has assured of his arrest to refund the money.

He is currently in custody in Dubai and government is taking steps by sending a team of diplomats, led by Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Honorable Joseph Kpemka Dindiok to bring him back to Ghana to face the laws of the land.

Akufo-Addo 'so much interested in resolving' NAM1 saga – Deputy Attorney General

A high-powered Ghanaian delegation comprising experts in diplomacy, law and security, is heading for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to broker a deal that will possibly see the Arabian country extradite Nana Appiah Mensah, who is wanted by Ghanaian authorities for fraud, back home.

The embattled CEO of gold-trading firm Menzgold Ghana Limited, which has the funds of several thousands of Ghanaian investors locked up as of August 2018, was arrested by Emirati authorities in Dubai on 7 December 2018 for allegedly defrauding an Arabian of $51 million in a gold deal.

Mr Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1, has also been declared wanted back home in connection with fraud charges. A warrant for his arrest was recently issued by the police, thus, the efforts by the Ghanaian authorities to have him repatriated back home.

Ghana’s Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka told Accra-based Joy FM on Monday, 14 January 2019 in an interview that: “There’ll be people from the CID [Criminal Investigations Department], there’ll be people from EOCO [Economic and Organised Crime Office] and there’ll be people from National Security. Of course, it’s going to be a delegation consisting of experts in security matters and then in diplomacy and law. So, a combination of the three”.

The delegation, according to Mr Kpemka, is “supposed to meet the authorities there with our consulate and our mission there and then the processes would be gone through for us to ascertain everything and then meet the security authorities and the government to get the way forward as far as bring him back to Ghana to answer to the charges is concerned”.

“And I have told you that His Excellency the president himself is so much interested in getting a resolution to this matter. And as I said, we had a meeting which the National Security Minister himself, who is so much concerned and so much determined to get to the bottom of the matter, looked at the issues before the composition of this committee that will be visiting Dubai to ascertain the facts on the ground and combine diplomacy and law as I indicated earlier, to see to the fact that he’s brought back here to Ghana”, the MP for Tempane said.