Minority in Parliament is asking President John Mahama to get former Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah to step aside from his current position as Minister of State at the Presidency.
The demands follow revelations in the JOY NEWS investigative report that 100 thousand cedis was paid to him as production cost by E-volution, a company that won a 1 million cedis contract to provide service during the 2014 World Cup.
Mr Ankrah has since denied the claim but Dominic Nitiwul told Joy News' Evans Mensah it is time for the President to demonstrate that the World Cup Commission was not a smokescreen to cover up alleged acts of corruption by his right hand men.
The three-member Commission was constituted by the President to investigate circumstances surrounding Ghana's botched and scandalous 2014 World Cup participation.
"We want to let the president to know that we still believe the president wants to cover up political appointees and this shocking revelation that has come this morning vindicates what we have said," he stated.
He said but for the thorough job done by Joy News' Manasseh Azure-Awuni the World Cup Commission was never going to make any such revelations.
"The president set up that Commission for a cover up. He should prove the skeptical minority wrong that it was not a cover up," he challenged.
He wondered why the president hastily reassigned the Sports minister and his deputy shortly after the World Cup scandal.
If that was not a cover up the president must prove to Ghanaians, he stated.
He said the scandal is a "purely criminal matter" and the president and the police must show leadership.
He was however unequivocal in his call for Elvis Afriyie Ankrah to step aside as Minister.
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