The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin South constituency, John Ntim Fordjour has asked his colleague MPs to take a cue from the Double Salary scandal.
“This is a wakeup call to all politicians to be careful and alert with money that is deposited into their accounts” he said during a panel discussion on Peace FM morning show ‘Kokrokoo’, Friday.
According to him, “there should be a system to reduce those human errors such that when a double payment occurs, the system will automatically notice”
Background
Some NDC MPs who served as ministers or deputy ministers are currently in hot waters after they were cited by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for allegedly taking double salaries.
25 of the MPs were initially asked to report to the police, but 18 of them were later asked to disregard the invitation.
So far, about eight of them have been interrogated by the CID.
Reports rife state that the Majority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene to safeguard the integrity of Parliament; a claim one of the lawyers for the indicted MPs, Victor Adawudu has denied.
Meanwhile, Parliament has announced the formation of a two-member bi-partisan committee to investigate the double salary scandal.
The two-man committee includes Dr.Anthony Akoto Osei and Benjamin Kpodo.
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