The Minority in Parliament has accused the Chairman of the Health Committee, Dr. Nana Ayew Afriyie, of deliberately impeding the progress of the probe of receipt and expenditure of Covid-19.
In June 2022, the Speaker of Parliament tasked both the Finance and Health Committees with promptly investigating the utilization of COVID-19 funds in response to perceived irregularities highlighted by the Finance Minister.
However on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, the Minority Leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, expressed concerns that the Chairman of the Committee and Member of Parliament for Effiduase/Asokore was obstructing the investigation.
“The Chairman of the joint committee, Ayew Afriyie, has not called a meeting to sit on the matter. The ranking member cannot obviously call a meeting and it is only the chairman who can call the meeting. So we are sensing some form of sabotage.
“There was a sub-committee that the joint committee formed and developed a guideline, and submitted it to the joint committee, which it accepted and as we speak, this matter has been delayed for almost eight months, and we cannot continue like this” he fumed.
Additionally, in a Press conference, Ranking Member on the health committee and MP for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said as a matter of high public interest, he finds it disturbing as to why the Chairman of the Committee will deliberately refuse to call for a meeting for the committee to executive its mandate.
“Upon consistent and several reminders, it has fallen on deaf ears”, the Ranking member said.
He is therefore urging the Chairman to executive his duty as a Member of Parliament and do the needful.
