{"id":230299,"date":"2016-07-12T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=230299"},"modified":"2016-07-12T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T13:23:08","slug":"ford-gift-saga-govt-confirms-receipt-of-chraj-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=230299","title":{"rendered":"Ford gift saga: Gov\u2019t confirms receipt of CHRAJ petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/12\/ford-gift-saga-chraj-writes-to-mahama-for-answers\/\"><strong>confirmed receipt<\/strong><\/a><\/span> of a letter from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), demanding a response from the President over allegations of conflict of interest leveled against him for receiving a car gift from a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe.<\/p>\n<p>The letter dated July 7, 2016, is in line with the investigations procedure regulations, 2010 (C I) 67.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;S6LxktmDcsAi3tDKRdWx8ZPJnvLoYx8a&#8221;]According to sources at CHRAJ, the president has ten days after the date of receipt of the letter to give his response.<\/p>\n<p>The National Youth League of the Convention People\u2019s Party and the Progressive People\u2019s Party both petitioned CHRAJ to investigate the circumstances surrounding receipt of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A Source at the Communications Ministry who declined to go on record, however confirmed to<strong> Citi News<\/strong> that the presidency has received the written statement from CHRAJ and will accordingly respond in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Head of the Youth League of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Hardi Yakubu, is optimistic a logical conclusion will be reached on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our ultimate goal is to find out the whole truth surrounding the Ford gift saga- we want CHRAJ to establish whether there was an actual conflict of interest in terms of the president accepting the gift; also we would like CHRAJ to establish the kind of gifts that public officials can accept while in office\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Lorrencia Nkrumah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has confirmed receipt of a letter from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), demanding a response from the President over allegations of conflict of interest leveled against him for receiving a car gift from a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe. The letter dated July 7, 2016, is in line with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230299","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}