{"id":380392,"date":"2017-12-05T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=380392"},"modified":"2017-12-05T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:41:35","slug":"chraj-clears-asenso-boakye-jinapor-of-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/chraj-clears-asenso-boakye-jinapor-of-corruption-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRAJ clears Asenso-Boakye, Jinapor of corruption allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has exonerated two presidential staffers of corruption allegations made against them by\u00a0Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, a sympathizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n
CHRAJ was petitioned by a group calling itself the Dynamic Youth Movement of Ghana, after the two had been exonerated by controversial investigations by the Criminal Investigations Department [CID].<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”xWp58ZGHv7bBFY9fCCwRoSIM1vfwBuOT”]In September, A-Plus took to Facebook to make vague allegations against President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s two Deputy Chiefs of Staff,\u00a0Francis Asenso-Boakye and Abu Jinapor.<\/p>\n
It later emerged that the accusations had to do with the two\u00a0putting pressure on the CEO of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Felix Anyah, to give back an on-site revenue-collection contract at the hospital to UniBank after the same contract\u00a0had been terminated.<\/p>\n
In a document containing its findings, sighted by Citi News<\/strong>, CHRAJ said it was “satisfied that the evidence does not support the allegations of corruption and abuse of power against Messrs A. Jinapor and Asenso Boakye\u2026 the allegations could not be substantiated whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n “Accordingly, this complaint is hereby dismissed as being without merit and totally unwarranted,” CHRAJ concluded.<\/p>\n CHRAJ noted that, the “relations between A-Plus and the two Deputy Chiefs of Staff appeared “frosty” and may have accounted for the allegations Mr. Obeng leveled against the two.<\/p>\n It noted that \u201ca possible strained relationship between Mr. Kwame Asare Obeng and Mr. Asenso-Boakye might have been extended to Mr. Jinapor as well. That could possibly be the ulterior motive for the allegations Mr. Asare Obeng leveled against the two Deputy Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CID controversy<\/strong><\/p>\n The Criminal Investigations Department (CID), which also investigated the claims, also found the allegations baseless.<\/p>\n But its investigation was marred by some controversy after an audio recording said to be a leaked recording of a conversation\u00a0between the then-Deputy Director of the CID, ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah and A-Plus, in which the police officer was heard advising A-Plus to deny the allegations because is a member of the NPP.<\/p>\n ACP Addo-Danquah denied the suggestions of a cover-up, and accused A-Plus of doctoring the circulating audio, but the matter did not proceed further.<\/p>\n Observers believed that this audio\u00a0compromised the integrity<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the CID, and that its outcome into the investigations could not be trusted.<\/p>\n