The Chief Accounts Officer at the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Kenneth Agbezuhlor has dismissed reports that the commission has settled the hotel bills of Lauretta Lamptey.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”BwFielGnvBegGFGsryA2R4IPI6Mx7ShY”]The CHRAJ commissioner, Lauretta Lamptey, has been widely criticized for wasting the\u00a0taxpayers’ money on hotel bills<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0after she relocated from a rented residence at the AU Village.<\/p>\n This was during the renovation of her official residence as CHRAJ boss, while she lodged at a $450 a night hotel in Accra.<\/p>\n But, Kenneth Agbezuhlor in an interview with\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0 insisted that Ms. Lauretta Lamptey has never placed a request for the payment of any hotel bill.<\/p>\n \u201cI have never paid the hotel bill of the commissioner. No bill concerning the commissioner\u2019s hotel accommodation has been forwarded to my desk. I am telling you as a fact that as I stand here I have not paid a penny on behalf of the commissioner in hotel bills,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n According to him, he only heard such reports in the media and denied knowledge of such payments by the commission.<\/p>\n The revelation by the Chief Accounts Officer comes weeks after Chief Justice’s office also investigated the matter and found Ms. Lamptey guilty of the charges until she provides further information to disprove the findings<\/span>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n There are several groups<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and individuals<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>who have mounted pressure on the CHRAJ boss to resign, while others have started a process to impeach her.<\/p>\n