PAC setting bad precedent with arrest of district officials

PAC setting bad precedent with arrest of district officials – Afenyo-Markin

Afenyo Markin

The Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alex Afenyo-Markin, has questioned the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) order for the arrest of two district assembly officials accused of lying to the committee.

The two persons who appeared before the committee on Monday were cited for irregularities at the Sefwi Akontombra Assembly in the Western Region and picked up by Parliament’s police following an order by the committee’s chairman, James Klutse Avedzi.

Mr. Afenyo-Markin feels Avedzi may be setting a bad precedent with his action.

“We shouldn’t set a bad precedent. Under criminal jurisprudence, due process is essential, therefore, to me, as a matter of law, if there were issues regarding the testimonies…he [Avedzi] should have filed a complaint or gone to the police to file a complaint,” Mr. Afenyo-Markin said on Eyewitness News.

The Effutu MP insisted that, in the bid to fight corruption, “procedure is as important as substance.”

He argued that Mr. Avedzi could even compromise the committee’s mandate by “overzealously acting in a manner that will abuse people’s rights” because certain conclusions “require proper investigative evaluation.”

“Are we documentation examiners? Are we fraud examiners? On what basis did we say the document is compromised,” he asked.

source|citinewsroom.com

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