CHRAJ boss must resign — GII
Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has called on the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Ms Lauretta Vivian Lamptey, to resign.
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This, it explained, is to salvage the sinking image of the Commission as well as in the interest of the national fight against corruption.
According to a press release signed by Mr Vitus Azeem, Executive Director of GII, members of the GII at its Annual Membership Meeting (AMM) held on December 12, 2014 in Accra unanimously resolved that the CHRAJ boss resign immediately.
The members of GII are men and women of integrity who believe in the values and principles of GII, especially in the condemnation of and the fight against corruption.
The membership is made up of religious leaders, academics and civil society representatives, some of whom have moved into government positions in the last two years due to their commitment to serve the nation and condemn corruption.
It will be recalled that in September, news broke out that the CHRAJ Commissioner had stayed in a house in the African Union (AU) Village at a cost of US$4,500.00 a month for 37 months (totalling $166,500.00) following her appointment.
When the lease expired,she moved into a hotel with her family, where she is being charged the equivalent of US$456.25 a day, insisting that she is entitled to accommodation from the state.
Furthermore, the Commissioner had spent all this period renovating the state-provided duty post accommodation to suit her taste also at a cost of GHS182, 000.00 to the state.
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Sadly, some government officials, including both politicians and public servants, jumped to her defence, admitting that it was not strange as other public officials were doing the same or would fall into the same trap tomorrow.
In public interviews, the Commissioner explained that the reason for staying in expensive housing at the AU village and in the hotel was because she was entitled to accommodation from the state and that her duty post accommodation was being renovated.