{"id":253552,"date":"2016-09-30T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253552"},"modified":"2016-09-30T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:02:12","slug":"mahama-has-shamed-critics-over-ford-gift-saga-kofi-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/mahama-has-shamed-critics-over-ford-gift-saga-kofi-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama has shamed critics over Ford gift saga – Kofi Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Campaign Coordinator for the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) 2016 election campaign, Kofi Adams, says the\u00a0Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) report partly clearing President John Mahama of any wrong doing in the Ford gift saga, vindicates the party’s long-held position, and also shames his critics.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is a day of shame for them, they [critics] have been exposed that they are only trying to destroy a gem, a pearl that we have,\u201d he said on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kofi Adams, who doubles as the National Organizer of the NDC, also hailed the report as\u00a0proof that President John Mahama “is not somebody that anyone can bribe, that President Mahama did not receive a bribe and that the gift of ford was not intended to bribe him or influence him in anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahama breached gift policy – CHRAJ<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following a petition by the youth wing of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), demanding a probe into the conduct of the President when he accepted a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor as Vice President in 2012, CHRAJ\u00a0said it did not find him\u00a0guilty of bribery and conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

CHRAJ however noted that, the President breached the gift policy, when he accepted the gift\u00a0as Vice President in 2012.<\/p>\n

\"Kofi<\/a>
Kofi Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Breach of policy does not mean Mahama is guilty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kofi Adams conceded that President Mahama may have violated policy as concluded by CHRAJ, but he asserted that the outcome “doesn\u2019t mean that he [Mahama] is guilty\u2026 they did not find him guilty as far as the whole gift matter is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

He contended further that, President Mahama had purely noble intentions when he accepted the gift as “he had in mind clearly what he was going to use the gift for and that the gift was meant to be used by the state.”<\/p>\n

As further justification of President Mahama’s actions, he said, \u201clook into history and look at conventions and practice. Almost all our Heads of State from Dr. Kwame Nkrumah all the way to President Kufuor and the late President Mills, have all at one time or the other received gifts, some of which they have passed onto the State.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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