"It was in a closed meeting with Members of Parliament; it wasn't about going to them one by one and saying, 'bring them [your constituents], let me recruit them.' That was not it. After a meeting with the Defence and Interior Committee, and we had agreed on a roadmap, that was when I approached them. I just wanted to help them get their people in as a colleague. I did not bribe them; it was not intended as a bribe," Henry Quartey told Joy News on Thursday. The Minister, who has come under intense public scrutiny over his handling of the recruitment process, was responding to allegations of bribery made against him by Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the NDC Chairman.