The Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, has challenged the Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, to provide evidence of his allegation of a scandal in the security service involving a top government appointee.

Mahama Ayariga threw this challenge while supporting a request by members of his Caucus for Afenyo-Markin to appear before the Privileges Committee to provide evidence of his allegation.

He warned that the Majority Caucus would ensure that the Minority Leader is duly punished if he fails to provide evidence of his allegation.

“I thought that there would be a denial that a statement like that was not made, but there's no such denial, except an allusion that he even knows more. Mr Speaker, we are happy to hear them all, and want to hear them in public.

“... you must substantiate it in this chamber, in the full glare of all the media houses. Otherwise, we in the NDC will insist on the most severe punishment for you,” he said.

Mahama Ayariga, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, accused the Minority Leader of deliberately trying to manufacture a scandal because there are none.

He said that President John Dramani Mahama was going to deal with the top government official when Afenyo-Markin released the name of the said official implicated in the supposed scandal.

“Mr Speaker, the attempt, the attempt to scandalise this government, will not happen because some people, every week, register a scandal. They must pay scandals for the NDC government, even where there is no scandal; they want to manufacture a scandal.

“If indeed a minister or a senior NDC person has any interest, any interest in the company that is providing the service, we want to hear it. Want to know that minister, so that we will take action against that minister, because this president has promised that any minister who is involved in a scandal, he will remove that minister,” he said.

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Watch a video of Ayariga's remarks below:



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