{"id":92241,"date":"2015-02-17T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=92241"},"modified":"2015-02-18T06:28:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T06:28:19","slug":"chraj-okays-new-national-security-boss-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=92241","title":{"rendered":"CHRAJ okays new National Security boss&#8217; appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has said there is nothing wrong with Baba Kamara, the new National Security Advisor, taking up a position in government while being\u00a0investigated by the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;B77ATjZAoKesjvgFnrHWhR48ehCHD40G&#8221;]The <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/02\/16\/mahama-appoints-new-security-advisor\/#sthash.25fpNiE2.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>newly appointed<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>National Security boss, is still being investigated by CHRAJ over his alleged involvement in the Mabey and Johnson scandal some six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) wants President Mahama to\u00a0suspend his appointment until the status of the bribery allegation against him is determined.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong> however, the Head of Corporate Communication and Public Relations at CHRAJ, Comfort Akosua Adu said\u00a0although investigations are on-going; no adverse findings have been made against him yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mabey and Johnson scandal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian in the UK in 2009 published on its front page that foreign politicians and Ghanaian officials were named as having received corrupt payments from a British firm, Mabey and Johnson \u00a0as the company admitted it had systematically paid bribes around the world to win contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge-building firm, Mabey and Johnson, is the first major British company to be convicted of foreign bribery. Many of its contracts were financially supported by the British taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>Baba Kamara was allegedly used as a conduit to unlawfully channel some money to top government officials under the erst while President Rawlings\u2019\u00a0administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Umaru Sanda Amadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has said there is nothing wrong with Baba Kamara, the new National Security Advisor, taking up a position in government while being\u00a0investigated by the Commission. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;B77ATjZAoKesjvgFnrHWhR48ehCHD40G&#8221;]The newly appointed National Security boss, is still being investigated by CHRAJ over his alleged involvement in the Mabey and [&hellip;]<\/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":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-92241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241","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=92241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}