Deputy Minority Leader Patricia Appiagyei has dismissed a memo circulating in the media that claims she rejected GH¢70,000 allegedly meant to influence her vote during last week’s vetting of ministerial and Supreme Court nominees, describing it as fake.
Appiagyei, who is also MP for Asokwa in Kumasi, told Graphic Online that the document, which surfaced on Friday morning, September 4, 2026, was not genuine.
The memo alleged that Appiagyei turned down the money because she did not know its source.
The controversy follows the Minority Caucus’s boycott of the vetting of three Supreme Court nominees on August 27, 2026, over what they called a rushed and compressed timetable.
Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin argued that the process denied Parliament sufficient time for scrutiny and public input, and called for the sitting to be suspended so the required 14-day notice period could be observed.
He also questioned the urgency, noting the Supreme Court already had a full bench of Justices.
Afenyo-Markin raised nine procedural objections and led Minority members of the vetting committee to walk out after the committee chairperson, Bernard Ahiafor, rejected the objections as flimsy, hollow and baseless.
Ahiafor said any MP unhappy with a decision of the House should use the procedures in Parliament’s Standing Orders to seek a reversal, adding that he would not preside over the committee and unilaterally vary a decision taken by the full House.
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