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CHRAJ probe commendable, Shows institutions are growing balls - Mornah

By Justice Kofi Bimpeh
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The National Chairman of Peoples National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah has commended the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) for their boldness in conducting and completing an investigation of conflict of interest regarding the presidency.

CHRAJ was in June this year petitioned by the youth wing of the CPP in collaboration with PPP to investigate President John Mahama on accusations of conflict of interest after news emerged that he had received Ford Expedition vehicle valued at $100,000 as gift from the Burkinabe, who had executed a contract for the Ghana Mission in Burkina Faso at a seemingly high cost and also selected through sole sourcing to construct the €25.9million Dodo Pepeso-Nkwanta road.

After three months of investigation, the Commission last Thursday released a 78-page indicating that though President Mahama violated the gift policy with regard to his decision to accept the vehicle, the Ford vehicle was not a bribe and therefore was not a conflict of interest.

In the report, CHRAJ stated it was satisfied that the gift in question formed part of gifts prohibited under the Gift Policy under the Code of Conduct and that although the evidence showed that President Mahama subsequently surrendered the gift to the State, the action nonetheless contravened the gift policy but also established the President was not culpable of conflict of interest, bribery or fraud in relation to the manner in which the vehicle was given to him.

But according to Mr. Mornah , the completion of the investigation into the conduct of President Mahama alone was commendable because the situation has not been so in the past in the country.

Speaking on Radio Gold's Alhaji & Alhaji on Saturday he said "it was not common in past to find an institution of state willing in the first place to investigate the issues pertaining the president, normally they will treat it as anything and throw it into the dustbin.”

“I need to commend CHRAJ, they have been bold to come out with a report on a matter that involves the president", he stated, adding that, “this shows the beginning of our institutions starting to have the balls to say that they will be able to take up even the mighty in our society.”
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