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| No show on hearing of case of busted MP |
11/25/2005 |
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The hearing of the case of drug trafficking charge preferred against the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza North, Eric Amoateng and an accomplice in New York Eastern district court, could not come off yesterday, because the courts were closed for thanksgiving, a public holiday in the United States of America.
Court prosecutor Robert Nadoza, was not immediately available to indicate when the next date would be.
However, the general feeling was that most employers would be taking today (Friday), for an extended holiday: hence it is likely to be on Monday.
Solicitors for embattled Amoateng, Nana Bonsu Busia, is due to arrive in the U.S this weekend to arrange another assistant to enable him face the eastern district courts.
Eric Amoateng has already been tagged in the Metropolitan Detention Centre with prison number 63795053.
Meanwhile, an interview monitored on the VOA says the privileges committee in parliament is working on disciplinary measures to officially expel the MP Amoateng from the house.
Kofi Abotchie of the VOA asked the Majority leader Felix Owusu Agyepong, when a bye election was likely to take place, to which he replied, "the disciplinary committee is going to furnish the house with its report, which the Speaker will communicate to the electoral commission and then the procedure will continue."
The majority leader told Kofi Abotchie who is also a JOY FM reporter that Eric Amoateng deceived the House by saying that he was attending to his sick daughter in the U.S.
He said parliament would henceforth scrutinize excuses put across by MPs before granting them leave.
Asked how much of background check was conducted on Amoateng before accepting him as a candidate of the NPP, Mr Owusu Agyepong said they tried their best, but elders and chiefs of his village stormed the party headquarters urging them that he was the preferred candidate because he had sponsored many development projects in the area.
Source: Ghanaian Chronicle.
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