at Public Accounts Committee

Managing editor of the insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Junior has lauded the performance of the Minister of Justice and Attorney general, Benjamin Kumbour at the Public Account Committee (PAC) of Parliament few days ago.

He says, he is impressed with the Attorney General and believes that he was very prepared and answered questions posed to him by the committee members satisfactorily.

The minister if Justice Benjamin Kumbour last week answered question about the judgment debts paid to Construction Pioneers (CP) by the National Democratic Congress government.

Meanwhile managing editor of the insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Junior lauded Ben Kumbours performance at the PAC sitting. He made these comments on Radio Gold’s current affairs program, Alhaji and Alhaji.

‘’The impression you get by watching and listening to the public account committee is that it is there for scoring cheap political points. Some of the questions did not in anyway suggest any seriousness, there was one particular which kept been repeated for about ten times’’.

‘’It was the question about whether indeed cabinet approved the payment of the judgement debt and the honorable attorney general persistently explained that cabinet has absolutely no power to overrule the decision of the international court of arbitration, and yet they kept pestering ’’.

‘’The impression you got was that all they wanted was to try and link the president to the payment. What is that?’’, he asked furiously.

‘’Are they telling us that the government of President Mills could have taken a position that it will not pay following the decision that has been giving by the international court of arbitration, its very very strange’’.

‘’ If the public accounts committee is looking for facts, it needn’t adopt that level of aggression, clear hostility.Indeed at the end of the day the honorable Benjamin Kumbour managed to maintain his cool and I think that the public judgment is that he did well and its commendable’’.