Former MP for Amenfi West, Mr. Kofi Asante, has said he attended the ECOWAS parliament recently because the Speaker of the House invited him.

He told Chronicle that, he was the chairman of the Joint Committee for Budget and Finance of the ECOWAS Parliament, and that he was there to participate in last month’s session of the decision-making bodies of the sub-regional House and Bureau Conference of chairmen.

“As I am talking now, I have presented my report. I have no business there if nobody invites me.”

Mr. Asante was reacting to criticism made of his presence at Abuja by a section of the press that “he had illegally attended the session since he ceased to be a legitimate member of the House following his decision to resign as MP.”