{"id":249692,"date":"2016-09-19T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=249692"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:03:02","slug":"speed-up-probe-into-mahama-ford-gift-cpp-youth-to-chraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=249692","title":{"rendered":"Speed up probe into Mahama ford gift – CPP youth to CHRAJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Secretary to the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) Youth League, Hardi Yakubu, has called on the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to balance expediency with diligence and speed, in its probe of\u00a0the Mahama Ford gift saga.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Secretary to the CPP youth wing, Hardi Yakubu, warned that undue delay could raise public suspicion over perceived inactivity from CHRAJ.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis expedition is not being seen by the public and that is why questions will begin to be raised as to why all this while we haven\u2019t really heard anything from them [CHRAJ],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Commission earlier stated that, though its investigations had reached advanced stages, Ghanaians should exercise patience<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to enable them adequately deal with the matter.<\/p>\n

In response to the comments from CHRAJ, Mr. Yakubu said the Commission was \u201cmaking the argument that because the matter is of importance, they need to take their time and do diligent work and we appreciate that.”<\/p>\n

He however added that, CHRAJ needed to,”balance the two so that the need for more time to do proper work doesn\u2019t necessarily compromise the expeditious discharge of the matter as appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

President John Dramani Mahama came under intense public scrutiny\u00a0for accepting the car gift worth about\u00a0US$100,000 from a Burkinabe contractor, allegedly to influence him.<\/p>\n

The Burkinabe, Djibril Kanazoe, has admitted giving President Mahama a Ford Expedition vehicle, for which the President called to thank him.<\/p>\n

The gift, according to reports, was prior to an attempt by the contractor, to win a bid to execute the Dodo Pepeso-Nkwanta road construction project.<\/p>\n

The same contractor had also been contracted to build a wall, at a cost of over half a million dollars, for the Ghana Embassy in Ouagadougou.<\/p>\n

CPP, PPP petition CHRAJ<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHRAJ was petitioned by the youth wing of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), and a private citizen to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>\"Mahama<\/a><\/p>\n

Critics are of the view that; the $100,000 dollar Ford vehicle gift presented to President Mahama in 2012, when he was Vice President, amounts to conflict of interest, and that he must be impeached since the contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, is also said to have been awarded some lucrative government contracts.<\/p>\n

Speaker throws out minority motion<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, last Thursday;\u00a0threw out a motion<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0filed by the Minority calling for parliamentary investigations into the matter.<\/p>\n

The Speaker argued that, CHRAJ has the legal and constitutional mandate and the capacity to deal with the matter.<\/p>\n

CHRAJ as part of investigations, has\u00a0already interrogated some high ranking government officials including former Interior Minister, Mark Woyongo.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

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

The Secretary to the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) Youth League, Hardi Yakubu, has called on the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to balance expediency with diligence and speed, in its probe of\u00a0the Mahama Ford gift saga. Speaking to Citi News, the Secretary to the CPP youth wing, Hardi Yakubu, warned that undue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237573,"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":[10,11],"tags":[3580,3122,11900,3,128],"class_list":["post-249692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-chraj","tag-cpp","tag-ford-gift-saga","tag-ghana-news","tag-john-mahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249692","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=249692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}