{"id":278750,"date":"2016-12-22T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278750"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T09:23:53","slug":"last-minute-appointments-a-manifestation-of-ndcs-corruption-amidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/last-minute-appointments-a-manifestation-of-ndcs-corruption-amidu\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Last minute’ appointments a manifestation of NDC’s corruption – Amidu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu has said the latest actions of the outgoing\u00a0Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) shows that\u00a0“impunity and corrupt behavior once internalized is difficult to change overnight.”<\/p>\n

In a new statement, Mr. Amidu said the appointment of new heads for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the National Commission on Civic Commission (NCCE) and the signing of ‘last minute’ contracts\u00a0reinforces his conviction for the pre-election\u00a0call upon the electorate to vote out the “incumbent looter Mahama.”<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”X73oOCqebt7MgUkK70myqnI3shIKrdmw”]President Mahama on Tuesday\u00a0swore in<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 new heads for CHRAJ and the NCCE, a move which the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has described as being duplicitous given prior agreements made during transition team meetings.<\/p>\n

The government has also been criticized for the signing of various contracts including an \u20ac18 million e-waste contract<\/a><\/strong><\/span> signed by the\u00a0Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga days after the party’s defeat at the December 7 polls.<\/p>\n

The NPP has since served notice of its possible intent to review<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the CHRAJ Commissioner and other last-minute appointments made by the outgoing administration.<\/p>\n

In the article, the\u00a0former Attorney General indicated that \u201cone would have thought that the massive defeat of the Looter Government never witnessed in the annals of Ghanaian history would make it circumspect of how it handles the last days of its dying pangs as a Looter Government so that the Independent Prosecutor may have mercy upon them. Unfortunately impunity and corrupt behavior once internalized is difficult to change over-night as subsequent events show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is going on in the transition to the new Government reinforces my conviction for my pre-election call upon the electorate to vote out the incumbent looter Mahama Government to stop the plundering of the public purse and get our looted monies back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I look at how the Looter Government is preparing its final exit after its miserable and unprecedented defeat at the polls, I am left in no doubt that Ghana would have been bankrupted with another four years of this looter Government in power,\u201d Mr. Amidu stated.<\/p>\n

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The newly appointed CHRAJ boss, Joseph Whittal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr. Amidu also questioned new CHRAJ’s boss’ Joseph Whittal\u2019s commitment to fighting corruption given his handling of the Mabey and Johnson case and his \u00a0“whitewashing” of the Ford Gift saga.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy kinsman is being appointed the Commissioner for the CHRAJ when after wasting the public purse up to the Supreme Court to contest whether or not the suspects in the Mabey and Johnson case could be investigated for corruption he chose to go to sleep after promising he was going to investigate using the trove of credible evidence I sent CHRAJ in the case as Attorney General.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThis same kinsman of mine whitewashed the Ford Expedition Saga even though he knew the CHRAJ had no jurisdiction over the President because the Attorney General could not prosecution him even if he were found culpable by CHRAJ,\u201d the former AG noted.<\/p>\n

Find Mr. Amidu’s full article\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

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

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