"'Stop chasing MPs for money' was not in my speech" - MP

Accra, May 14, GNA - Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe Constituency, never asked the people not to chase MPs for money.

Mr Osei-Mensah, who had complained about media reports that he had asked the electorate not chase MPs for money, said he had been hospitalised and could, therefore, not attend the durbar organised by the Chiefs and people of Jachie on Sunday April 8, 2007, where he was purported to have made the statement.

He said the statement was not in his speech and Mr Paul Adusei Agyemang, Assembly Man for Jachie East, who represented him at the function, had also denied making such a statement.

Mr Osei-Mensah said he did not ask for the increase in the District Assemblies' Common Fund, neither did he say it was inadequate and could not make the necessary impact on the development of the communities.

The Member of Parliament said: "I wish to make it emphatically clear, that neither my representative nor I have said anywhere that 'stop chasing MPs for money', it is therefore a pure concoction of self fabricated calumny by the Reporter."