Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has hit back at corruption allegations made against him by musician-turned-politician Kwame Asare-Obeng, popularly known as A Plus.
In a firm rebuttal at a press briefing on Wednesday, April 30, Dr. Ayine challenged A Plus to provide credible proof or face scrutiny for what he called baseless accusations.
“I was never involved in the passage of the sanitation levy as I was not a member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, let alone being in a position to influence the position of the membership of the committee,” Dr. Ayine said, distancing himself from claims that his influence shaped financial policy decisions in Parliament.
He went further to address the source of the allegations, stating, “I am reliably informed that his basis for saying I am corrupt and a thief is that I took campaign contributions from a businessman at East Legon known as Dr. Slege, and that he also knows the people who donated pickups for my campaign.”
The Attorney General didn’t mince words in highlighting the absurdity of the claim. “If receiving donations for your campaign or getting a pickup is thievery or corruption, then there are 276 thieves in Parliament, including the person who was making the allegation himself,” he said, drawing attention to the common practice of campaign support among MPs.
Issuing a direct challenge, Dr. Ayine stated, “If A Plus has any evidence of corruption or thievery against me, I am challenging him today to call a press conference and present the evidence or present it to the police to investigate me.”
