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I hope no one paid to sit close to me - Akufo-Addo jokes at MUSIGA event
President Akufo-Addo has poked fun at the possible parliamentary enquiry into allegations that the Ministry of Trade and Industry charged between $25,000 and $100,000 to grant expatriates access to his seat at the first ever Ghana Expatriates Business Awards last month.
The matter has become a subject of parliamentary enquiry after the Speaker of Parliament summoned Members of Parliament to consider a motion for full scale parliamentary probe.
Even before MPs return to the house to consider the motion, the Flagstaff House has cleared the Trade and Industry Ministry of any wrongdoing.
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Jokingly speaking on the matter at the 2017 MUSIGA Grand Ball held at the Banquet Hall of the State House, President Akufo-Addo said he hopes the MUSIGA Presidential Grand Ball, of which participants paid Gh¢1,500.00 as participation fee will not become a subject of parliamentary enquiry too.
“I hope that it will not be said that I asked people to pay a Gh¢1,500 to come and have dinner with me tonight. This is a MUSIGA Presidential Ball and it should stay as such else I’ll be the subject of parliamentary enquiry,” he joked.
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