The People’s National Convention (PNC) has filed a petition with the Office of the Special Prosecutor to investigate alleged bribery during the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting held by the Electoral Commission (EC) on October 1.
Mark Ewusi, National Youth Organizer for the PNC and Convenor of Election Watch Ghana, claims that selected party representatives received money just before the meeting started.
Mark, alleged that monies were shared to some selected participating party representatives few minutes before the commencement of the IPAC meeting. He claimed to have received GHC3,000.
He further revealed that his share of the money was given to him by an executive of the Liberal Party of Ghana.
Speaking to the media after his petition stated that money has never been shared during an IPAC meeting, so there is the need for investigation to be launched into this allegation to unravel the reasons behind sharing of the booties which he believes was to influence their decisions at the meeting.
“People are not happy that I am going to petition the Special Prosecutor, but our democracy cannot be reduced to this level,” he said.
But the General Secretary of the LPG, Jerry Apawu the man at the center of doling out the money to Mark Ewusi, he explained that he only gave the money out because Mark had earlier begged him for money to settle his family’s rent issues.
He said he has not received any call or letter from the Office of the Special Prosecutor inviting him for questioning.
Apaw said, “This is why people go through difficult times, and nobody helps them.
Because Mark begged me for money to pay his family’s rent allowance and now look what he is doing.”
