Majority slams minority over abduction of Labanese claims

The Majority in Parliament has slammed their colleagues in the Minority for claiming that a Lebanese national has been abducted in the country.

Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa had expressed concerns over Mahran Mustapha Baajour’s alleged disappearance in a statement.

He said: “immediately after arriving at the Kotoka International Airport on 13th December, 2018, Mahran Mustapha Baajour and his two Ghanaian hosts who welcomed him at the airport were arrested at the precincts of the airport just when they were about departing in their Toyota salon vehicle with registration number GN 6126 – 15 by persons claiming to be operatives of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).”

But Member of Parliament’s Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, John Ntim Fordjour, has debunked the claims, saying credible checks conducted at the National Security and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration affirm beyond a doubt that no such person had arrived at the Kotoka International Airport.

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“It is abundantly clear that the claims of the Minority are false, unfounded and holding no truth. More so, failure on the part of the Ranking Member and the Minority to verify the facts with the relevant agencies prior to release of the statement, smacks of deliberate attempt to cause disaffection for the image and reputation of Ghana as they have often sought to do,” he said.

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Below
is the statement from the Majority

MAJORITY PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE PALPABLY FALSE CLAIMS OF ABDUCTION OF LEBANESE
NATIONAL MISCHIEVOUSLY MADE BY THE MINORITY

The attention of the Foreign Affairs Committee of
Parliament has been drawn to a press statement released by the Minority making
rather outrageous allegations of abduction of one Mahran Mustapha Baajour
purported to be a Lebanese businessman of Palestinian origin at Kotoka
International Airport, Accra, on December 13, 2018.

We wish to emphatically state that credible checks
conducted at the National Security and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional
Integration affirm beyond a doubt that no such person had arrived at the Kotoka
International Airport, contrary to the palpably false accounts given by the
Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

It is abundantly clear that the claims of the
Minority are false, unfounded and holding no truth.

More so, failure on the part of the Ranking Member
and the Minority to verify the facts with the relevant agencies prior to
release of the statement, smacks of deliberate attempt to cause disaffection for
the image and reputation of Ghana as they have often sought to do.

We therefore strongly condemn the rather mischievous
and most unpatriotic falsehood fabricated by the Minority and accordingly urge
the general public to disregard and treat with the contempt it deserves, the
obnoxious attempt by the Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and
the Minority, to smear the highly reputed image of our beloved country Ghana in
the comity of nations.

Ghana is acclaimed in the international community as
a country where human rights and the rule of law are creditably upheld and
thus, any contemptible attempt by the Ranking Member and the Minority, to
falsely portray our country otherwise, in pursuit of parochial and partisan
interests should and must be condemned in no uncertain terms.

It is our understanding that the National Security
shall accordingly issue a response in due course.

Signed

John Ntim Fordjour, MP

Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs

For and on behalf the Majority Caucus

Source: Adomonline.com/Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy