{"id":328678,"date":"2017-06-15T17:48:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328678"},"modified":"2017-06-15T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:48:52","slug":"ndc-man-sues-ag-for-defending-ofori-atta-in-bond-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328678","title":{"rendered":"NDC man sues AG for defending Ofori-Atta in bond saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eastern Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mark Oliver Kevor, has challenged the capacity of the Attorney General to serve as a legal representative for the Finance Minister in a petition before the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), calling for an\u00a0investigation into the alleged conflict of interest in the $2.25 billion bond issue.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kevor, who has filed a suit at the Supreme Court, is praying the court to the stop AG from representing the finance minister.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”eX9PMOEGxbrqmRxRX3LdPthkylwyXQRW”]According to the plaintiff, the action of the AG in responding to the petition on behalf of Ken Ofori -Atta is unconstitutional and must be declared null void.<\/p>\n

The suit comes after the Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame, in a 16-page response to CHRAJ\u2019s enquiry in a petition brought by the Ashanti Regional NDC\u00a0organizer, Yaw Brogya Gyamfi,\u00a0defende<\/a>d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the Finance Minister over allegations that he may have been involved in a conflict of interest situation in the $2.25 billion domestic bond issued by government.<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Genfi petitioned CHRAJ to investigate the bond on grounds that the\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Ofori-Atta attempted to \u201cpromote a personal interest for himself, as well as family and friends, which interfered with the objective exercise of his duties.\u201d<\/p>\n

A member of the NDC legal team, Abraham Amaliba, had previously described the Attorney General’s office’s decision to respond to the petition brought before CHRAJ as an irregularity.<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Amaliba explained\u00a0that,\u00a0the defence from the AG’s office was wrong, because \u201cthe case before CHRAJ is a case personal to Ken Ofori Atta. It is a matter which in effect says that a public officer has used his private interests to allow that to override the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plaintiff is seeking:<\/p>\n

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  1. A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, particularly Articles 88(5), 218(a) and (e), 284 and 287 thereof, the 1st<\/sup> defendant cannot act as the legal representative for Honourable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta, the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Ghana, in a pending investigation bordering on conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Defendant;<\/li>\n
  2. A further declaration that the purported response filed by the 1st<\/sup> Defendant on behalf of the said Honorable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta in respect of the petition concerning conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Defendant is unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever;<\/li>\n
  3. An order of perpetual injunction directed at the office od the 1st<\/sup> Defendant restraining it from acting or purporting to act on behalf of Honourable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta in respect of the said petition before the 2nd<\/sup> Defendant; and<\/li>\n
  4. Any further or other orders as this honourable court would deem feet in the circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    –<\/p>\n

    By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Eastern Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mark Oliver Kevor, has challenged the capacity of the Attorney General to serve as a legal representative for the Finance Minister in a petition before the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), calling for an\u00a0investigation into the alleged conflict of interest in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[10,11],"tags":[6357,3580,3,8226],"class_list":["post-328678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-2-25-billion-bond","tag-chraj","tag-ghana-news","tag-mark-oliver-kevor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328678","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=328678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}