{"id":224049,"date":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=224049"},"modified":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:52:58","slug":"cpp-youth-petitions-chraj-over-mahama-car-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/cpp-youth-petitions-chraj-over-mahama-car-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"CPP youth petitions CHRAJ over Mahama car gift"},"content":{"rendered":"
The youth of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate President Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor.<\/p>\n
The party’s youth wing argues that the circumstances surrounding the gift and the acceptance of it by\u00a0President Mahama, contravened the 1992 constitution.<\/p>\n
The Burkinabe in question, Djibril Kanazoe, has been accused of ‘bribing’ President John Mahama with an expensive vehicle in an attempt to win a contract\u00a0to execute a road construction project.<\/p>\n
He admitted giving\u00a0President Mahama a 2010 Ford Expedition vehicle as a gift, for which the President called to thank him.<\/p>\n
Government has admitted the incident occurred but said it cannot constitute corruption or conflict of interest since the car was added to the pool of government vehicles.<\/p>\n
The petition signed by the Secretary of the party’s Youth League, \u2018Commander\u2019 Hardi Yakubu, noted that accepting the Ford Expedition amounted to a conflict of interest situation, and has called on CHRAJ to institute a formal investigation into the matter to establish their claims.<\/p>\n
The CPP youth also want clarification over whether a gift given to a government official may be classified as a bribe.<\/p>\n
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has also served notice it will petition CHRAJ to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The youth of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate President Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor. The party’s youth wing argues that the circumstances surrounding the gift and the acceptance of it by\u00a0President Mahama, contravened the 1992 constitution. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":213777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n