Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has demanded that the Attorney General, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, names the parliamentarian who was allegedly paid to kill a story in relation to the National Service Scheme (NSS) ghost names scandal.
He cited transparency and protection of the reputation of Parliament as reasons for his demand.
“We call on the Attorney General (AG) to name the said MP to whom money was given to kill the story. Doing so will be in the interest of transparency and also to protect the reputation of Parliament,” the Facebook post by Sulemana Braimah read.
Dominic Ayine had indicated, during his press briefing on March 24, 25, that monies were allegedly paid by the Chief Executive Officer and other officials of the National Service Authority (NSA) to a Member of Parliament to influence the media to kill the NSS ghost names investigations.
Dr Ayine further disclosed that eight suspects had been interrogated and were cooperating with investigations on the National Service Scheme scandal.
“Because these matters are still under investigation, I can confirm that the investigation will conclude in the National Service and the Sky Train Scandal by the middle of April for the prosecution to begin.
“With the National Service Scandal, eight suspects have been interrogated and a good number of them have started singing. We now have evidence of payments that were made into the accounts of the top executives of the National Service by private vendors of the scheme,” he said.
The AG added that “We also have evidence that in November 2024, the CEO of the NSS and others paid a Ghanaian Member of Parliament to kill the story in the media and to defend them.”
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