{"id":253909,"date":"2016-10-01T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253909"},"modified":"2016-10-01T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:37:23","slug":"chraj-did-a-poor-job-on-ford-gift-saga-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/chraj-did-a-poor-job-on-ford-gift-saga-casely-hayford\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRAJ did a ‘poor job’ on Ford gift saga – Casely-Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"

A leading member of pressure group, OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely-Hayford has accused the\u00a0Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)\u00a0of doing \u201ca poor job\u201d in investigating the $100,000 Ford gift expedition case.<\/p>\n

According to him the report released by CHRAJ is a mechanism to prevent others from suing President John Mahama for accepting the gift\u00a0from a Burkinabe contractor who is said to have benefited from some lucrative government projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cCHRAJ has done a poor job and continuous to do a poor job. This is not an independent appraisal of anything. This is a white wash to try and give the president an opportunity to block anything that anybody comes up with to try and sue him further and it is not good enough we should stop this,\u201d Casely-Hayford said.<\/p>\n

CHRAJ was petitioned by the Progressive People\u2019s party (PPP), Youth wing of the CPP and a private citizen to investigate the president’s acceptance of the car which they say leads to a conflict of interest and corruption.<\/p>\n

But CHRAJ in its report released on Thursday<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0noted that, it did not find the President guilty of bribery, fraud or conflict but said\u00a0President Mahama breached the gift policy.<\/p>\n

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But\u00a0speaking on the Big Issue<\/strong>, Casely-Hayford said CHRAJ’s report is \u00a0disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt [The report] doesn\u2019t make any sense, there are so many things that are wrong with this transaction and CHRAJ as an organization is honestly so disappointing. There is a lot of material in that report, [that] it would have been better off not even disclosing because it makes the whole thing look so bizarre that it raises more questions than answers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

CHRAJ report shames critics <\/strong><\/p>\n

But the Co-ordinator of the 2016 National Democratic Congress (NDC) campaign, Kofi Adams argued that the CHRAJ report vindicates the president<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/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.<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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