Lawyer Nana Ato Dazie has defended his client, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, following allegations that the activist accused Parliament’s Appointments Committee of accepting bribes to approve government nominees.Oliver Barker-Vormawor was summoned yesterday to appear before the Appointments Committee of Parliament to substantiate allegations.

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Addressing the Appointmnent Committee, Mr Dazie dismissed claims that Barker-Vormawor’s remarks were a direct attack on the Committee. Instead, he argued that the statement could be interpreted in multiple ways, depending on the reader’s perspective.“The statement that we see is clearly can be seen as a double meaning or interpretation depending upon who reads it. But Certainly not a matter attacking the appointment committee at all.

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Indeed if it is anything at all to go by, it is a statement of a whistleblower saying that some things are happening,” he stated.He further emphasized that Ghana’s Whistleblower Act encourages individuals to expose wrongdoing when they witness or hear about it. Thus, Barker-Vormawor was merely fulfilling this civic duty by shedding light on alleged misconduct rather than making baseless accusations.

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