The Minority NDC members in Parliament were on Tuesday shaken to the core when the Member of Parliament for Old- Tafo-Suame, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu dropped the hint that the NPP government would soon institute a probe into the disappearance of two billion cedis (2 billion) allocated for the renovation and refurbishment of the Castle, the official seat of government.
The hitherto minority bench which had been inundated with noise and heckling became dead silent, according to Thursday’s edition of ‘The Independent’.
It was very difficult from the press gallery to guess exactly the cause of the sudden despondency but the apparent shock, and murmuring after the bombshell however, offered some clue which was later confirmed by some MPs that the minority was not the least amused by the intended probe.
While some of them were shocked that such an amount was contracted for the Castle project without the consent of Parliament, others opined that the intended action only smacked of witch-hunting.
Hon Mensah-Bonsu had intervened on a point of order during a contribution by the MP for Keta, Hon. Dan Abodakpi who described President Kufuor’s description of the Castle as unfair to the former regime of the NDC.
According to the Old-Tafo-Suame MP, an amount of two billion cedis was in 1999 allocated for the renovation of the Castle and that there was going to be a probe into what the money was used for.
Source: GhanaWeb
