{"id":224049,"date":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=224049"},"modified":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","slug":"cpp-youth-petitions-chraj-over-mahama-car-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=224049","title":{"rendered":"CPP youth petitions CHRAJ over Mahama car gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

The youth of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate President Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor.<\/p>\n

The party’s youth wing argues that the circumstances surrounding the gift and the acceptance of it by\u00a0President Mahama, contravened the 1992 constitution.<\/p>\n

The Burkinabe in question, Djibril Kanazoe, has been accused of ‘bribing’ President John Mahama with an expensive vehicle in an attempt to win a contract\u00a0to execute a road construction project.<\/p>\n

He admitted giving\u00a0President Mahama a 2010 Ford Expedition vehicle as a gift, for which the President called to thank him.<\/p>\n

Government has admitted the incident occurred but said it cannot constitute corruption or conflict of interest since the car was added to the pool of government vehicles.<\/p>\n

The petition signed by the Secretary of the party’s Youth League, \u2018Commander\u2019 Hardi Yakubu, noted that accepting the Ford Expedition amounted to a conflict of interest situation, and has called on CHRAJ to institute a formal investigation into the matter to establish their claims.<\/p>\n

The CPP youth also want clarification over whether a gift given to a government official may be classified as a bribe.<\/p>\n

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has also served notice it will petition CHRAJ to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The youth of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate President Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor. The party’s youth wing argues that the circumstances surrounding the gift and the acceptance of it by\u00a0President Mahama, contravened the 1992 constitution. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":213777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}