Minority call for bi-partisan cocaine probe is 'misplaced' - Agbesi

Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alfred Agbesi has faulted the call by the New Patriotic Party Minority group for a bi-partisan probe into the controversy surrounding the arrest of a Ghanaian by UK security agents for alleged cocaine trafficking.

According to Agbesi, the partisan build up to the call by its promoters undermines the very essence of the call, especially so when the NPP members who must be part of the probe, have apparently taken sides already.

He told Radio Gold in Accra: “I think the call they made for a bi-partisan committee to investigate this matter is a misplaced call… We have leaders in this house who sit and deliberate on matters of national importance, when they need us to call for any action together we do. No one side goes and take a decision and ask the other side to come and join it, particularly if the other side is a partisan side. Partisan side in the sense that this is a side of the house made up of mainly the NPP. Now if this side calls on the NDC side to come and join in forming a bi-partisan committee, the very basis of the call is wrong. So you can’t get a non-partisan committee to settle it. So I told my leader this morning that this call cannot be entertained and … both of us agreed this morning that it is a wrong move which cannot lead to anything because they have already politicised the issue...”

According to him, the NDC side will not entertain the call after the NPP politicized the matter.

Listen to the attached audio

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