Majority Chief Whip Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor has said the appointments committee of parliament should refer to the privileges committee on the issue involving activist Oliver Barlker-Vormawor.
It was his view that this would enable the committee to focus on its mandate to vet the ministerial nominees. "Let the privileges committee deal with this matter, they have jurisdiction to deal with this matter and then we will appear as a witnesses.
We are spending precious hours dealing with matters we don't have the power to deal with. "We have the power to invite and put it to him, to that end a referral should be made to the appropriate committee." But the Chair of the committee Bernard Ahiafor, overruled him and said "We took a decision to invite him to substantiate his claim, he has exercised his right of a lawyer of his own choice.
There is a categorical denial of one of the statements not emanating from him.
