A bi-partisan committee tasked to investigate the cash-for-seats saga has descended into a fight over the draft of its final report.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Bolga East who is one of two NDC MPs on the five-member committee has been accused of trying to hold the committee hostage when it came to writing the report.

According to the Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, he was given a draft report by the committee chairman Ameyaw Kyeremeh to study and make inputs.

But for two days "he went missing", the Majority leader led a blistering attack on the Bolga East NDC MP whom he accused of making up "cock-and-bull" stories to explain his lack of cooperation.

The Majority Leader reported the NDC MP as saying his phone had low battery and his house had no power supply to charge the phone, a claim Ayine has partially debunked.

After all the delays, he finally presented a 'Minority report' to the chairman who had no option than to reject it, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu said.

Dominic Ayine later said the committee chairman explained to him "there is no room in our standing orders for a minority report".

Photo: Left to Right: Deputy Minority leader James Avedzi, Committee chairman, Ameyaw Kyeremeh, Yaw Buaben Asamoah and Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah, members of the bi-partisan committee

The report was laid before the House Tuesday without the minority's input leading to a walk-out by the aggrieved NDC MPs.

At a Minority press conference following the walk-out, Dominic Ayine rejected the claim he was "very, very dishonesty".

He insisted that "at every point in time", he communicated with the committee chairman.

The former Deputy Attorney-General Dominic Ayine told journalists he is prepared to make his WhatsApp chat available as evidence of communication.

"Whatsapp is encrypted....if you want, all my communication to him regarding the process are on my WhatsApp", he defended himself.

He also rejected claims that he was unable to communicate because his phones had run down. "I never told anybody that my phones run down", Dominic Ayine told Joy FM's Top Story Tuesday.

He, however, insisted his laptop used in preparing the Minority's input crashed. "I cannot make up the story of my laptop crashing", he said.