Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh says his side is focused on unraveling the circumstances leading to the death of the late President John Evans Atta-Mills.

His comment follows alleged claims that two NPP MPs have denied being co-sponsors of the private member's motion to probe the late President's death.

Speaking to JoyNews, the Nsawam Adoagyiri MP said the Minority’s response to the probe is a knee jerk reaction.

Responding to a claim by the Deputy Minority Chief Whip that two NPP MPs have denied being co-sponsors of the private motion, Frank Annoh-Dompreh noted that the Majority is not perturbed by the actions of the opposition NDC but rather being rational by seeking for a probe into Atta-Mills’ death.

“If indeed it’s the case, they should allow those who say they are not aware but their names have been published to come and speak to this. I can understand them, it’s a knee-jerk reaction, we are focused, we are expectant that the Speaker will admit this motion and then we will debate it. We are being rational, so they should stop being emotional about a call to probe the late Prof’s death,” he said.

Deputy Minority Chief Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim in an interview with JoyNews’ Kwesi Parker-Wilson had earlier alleged that MP for Mpraeso, Davis Ansah Opoku and Tema Central MP, Nii Noi Nortey whose name were amongst those who filed a private member’s motion to probe the death of the late President Evans Atta-Mills have denied assenting their signature to the said motion.

Giving more details, the Deputy Minority Chief Whip said his interactions with the two MPs suggested that their names were being used without their consent to file the motion.

According to Ahmed Ibrahim, to confirm the claims from both MPs, he checked with the office of the Speaker and although the two MPs had their names on the motion, their signatures were missing from the motion filed.

“You were there when I asked the Honourable MP, Nii Noi, who categorically stated that he has no knowledge of the motion and therefore they’ve written to their leadership to take their names out of that motion and before I spoke to Nii Noi, I called Honourable Davis Ansah Opoku, the MP for Mpraeso, he also was categorical that he has no knowledge of such a motion and that somebody used their names [he and Nii Noi].

“So I followed up with the Right Honourable Speaker’s office to go and have a look at those who signed or appended their names to the motion. To my surprise, the names Davis Ansah Opoku, Nii Noi, Habib Ibrahim and Annoh-Dompreh were there. However, it was only the signature of Frank Annoh-Dompreh that was appended to the motion. The three other MPs did not sign which confirmed the statement being made by the MP for Mpraeso and Tema Central that they did not append their signature to any motion,” he told Kwesi Parker-Wilson.