The President of IMANI\u00a0Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has opined that the minority in parliament should have petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on the Ford vehicle\u00a0that was given to President Mahama by a Burkinabe contractor.<\/p>\n
He said this on Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0news\u00a0analysis show, The Big Issue\u00a0<\/strong>on Saturday.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”6W9UDXrEAxKlROeKTpO6A4SJMwHkOXkT”]Three petitions have already been presented to the CHRAJ by the Progressive People\u2019s Party [PPP], the youth wing of the Conventions People\u2019s Party [CPP] and a private citizen.<\/p>\n Franklin Cudjoe is therefore saying that the minority could have presented a fourth petition to the commission, just to put some more\u00a0pressure.<\/p>\n \u201cI totally understand why the minority decided that they wanted to bring this matter to parliament. CHRAJ may be a lame duck because it has had a lot of problems. Even if it was for show purposes, the minority could have also petitioned CHRAJ and organised some sort of a float on the day they present it. That would have put some pressure on CHRAJ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Speaker wasn\u2019t speaking against substance of the case<\/strong><\/p>\n Franklin Cudjoe also said that, he didn\u2019t think that the speaker of parliament was addressing the substance of the matter when he dismissed the motion that was presented by the minority seeking to cause\u00a0an investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n According to him, the speaker was looking at the procedure when he dismissed the motion on Thursday [September 1].<\/p>\n \u201cI think that the speaker was looking at procedure, he wasn\u2019t speaking against the substance of the case. The speaker said that this wasn\u2019t the avenue. There may be constitutional reasons why the matter could be discussed; I don\u2019t know if the case of double jeopardy applies here too.\u201d<\/p>\n