Parliament is said to have spent 130 thousand cedis on transportation allowance for MPs who took part in the emergency sitting on the botched Parliamentary investigation into the Merchant Bank sale to Fortiz.

Former majority leader Cletus Avoka said the minority NPP in parliament should be made to pay for the cost incurred by the state during Monday’s emergency sitting called by the speaker of parliament.

Eighty Minority MPs presented a private members motion to Parliament seeking  Parliamentary inquiry into the controversial sale of Merchant Bank to Fortiz.

The Speaker of Parliament then called an emergency meeting asking all MPs who were on recess to return.

The meeting was held Monday, but the Speaker threw out the motion on the basis that the case is already pending before the court. He did not want to prejudice the case.

Speaking to Joy News' Parliamentary correspondent Elton John Brobbey, the former Majority Leader accused the minority MPs of causing financial loss to the state.

He wondered why they took the transport allowances for a sitting they claimed was to address a pertinent national issue.

He said the NPP must be made to cover the cost.

"I5 per cent of the MPs, those who signed the request to the speaker asking him to recall Parliament must pay cost to the rest of us who have been called from our constituencies for no justification.

"If we have to be given transportation from the state coffers that is causing financial loss to the state," he alleged.

But the NPP has dismissed the arguments.

Member of Parliament for Suhum Fredrick Opare Ansah said the NDC is only courting public anger against the NPP.