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Muntaka Erred, He Should Have Investigated Bribery Claims Before Going Public – Dominic Ayine
Member of Parliament for Bolga East, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine has said colleague MP, Munataka Mubarak should have done the needful and investigated bribery claims against Judiciary before publicising it.
Muntaka has apologised for the bribery accusation he made against a justice of the Supreme Court after the elections of a speaker for the 8th Parliament.
Portions of his apology read “Based upon good counsel, I have also decided to let sleeping dogs lie and will consequently refrain from any further public commentary on the matter which, as I have indicated was originally reported to me by a female colleague Parliamentarian.”
Reacting to the apology on JoyNews’ Newsfile Saturday, Dr Ayine said: “I don’t want any public comment that will end up doing damage to the reason why the statement has been issued”
“Now ought he to have made it public before enquiring into its truthfulness or otherwise, he did not do so before going public and I think that, that is where he erred. If he had investigated, he would have found out that maybe the person who placed the call was not a Supreme Court justice after all or he was just pretending to be a Supreme Court justice.” he added.
He further revealed that the NDC had initiated an investigation into the allegation but would not make their findings public.
“We actually went to MTN, got the numbers, and the calls that came to her, traced them, and so on and so forth.”
