Ex-speaker ready to pay for "stolen" items

Former Speaker, Ebenezer Sekyi Hughes, has told the Minority Leader, Hon Kyei Mensah-Bonsu that he is ready and willing to pay for all items he took away from his official residence if that decision is taken.

Hon Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu tells Citi News Mr Hughes expressed his willingness to pay for the items when he spoke with him to enquire why he had stripped his official residence bare.

The Parliamentary Service Board is expected to meet on the matter. The Board would discuss how to retrieve the furnishings and equipment, which, according to Majority Leader Alban Bagbin, amounts to over four billion old cedis.

Rt Hon Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes, according to Majority Leader, Alban Bagbin stripped bare his official residence leaving only wall unit air conditions and a doormat.

Both Majority and Minority Leaders of Parliament have confirmed to CitiFM that Rt Hon Sekyi House indeed took away virtually everything from his official residence upon leaving office.

The two leaders of the House have also hinted Citi News in separate interviews that all the gym equipment and standby generator may be retrieved from the former Speaker.

He may however have to pay for the other furnishings.

Hon Mensah-Bonsu said it was wrong for the former Speaker to have taken the items away when no inventory had been taken pending a definitive decision by the Board as to whether former speaker's could leave with those items.