The Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, Patricia Appiagyei, has reacted to media reports suggesting she has written a memo rejecting GH¢70,000 money.

Some media reports quoting the said memo emerged on Friday morning Sept 4.

But the Deputy Minority Leader has told Graphic Online's Parliamentary Correspondent, Nana Konadu Agyeman, that the said memo is "fake".

The Friday morning media reports suggested Member of Parliament for Asokwa in Kumasi who doubles as the Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament Ms Appiagyei, had turned down an amount of GH¢70,000 allocated to her to influence her in last week's ministerial and Supreme Court bench nominees vetting by Parliament.

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The media reports, quoting a memo from Appiagyei, alleged that her grounds for rejection was because she claimed she did not know the source of the amount.

The said memorandum was quoted as dated September 2, and was copied to the Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, who is also the Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri.

Objection of SC Justices’ vetting 

The Minority Caucus in Parliament had boycotted the vetting of three Supreme Court nominees on August 27, because they protested a rushed and compressed timetable for the vetting.

It was the contention of the Minority that the process was being rushed without sufficient time for parliamentary scrutiny and public participation.

“These nominations came to the House on Monday. Let us reason together and let us be seen as being consistent with our political views. If you want to follow the precedent, please suspend today’s sitting, properly put out the advert as you requested when you were in opposition, and let us wait for the 14 days,” the Minority Leader said.

Besides, he argued that the Supreme Court already had a full complement of Justices and there was no emergency to justify rushing the appointments.

Basing his argument on nine grounds to raise procedural objections, Mr Afenyo-Markin led Minority members of the committee to walk out.

That was after the Chairperson of the committee, Bernard Ahiafor, had dismissed the preliminary objection, describing the grounds raised by the Minority as “flimsy”, “hollow” and “baseless”.

He said any member dissatisfied with a decision of the House must use the procedures provided under Parliament’s Standing Orders to seek a reversal.

“If you are aggrieved by the decision of the House, the method available for you to reverse that decision is contained in our own Standing Orders,” Mr Ahiafor said.

He, therefore, asserted that he would not preside over the committee and purport to vary the orders or directions or decision taken at the plenary by the entire House.