CHRAJ case against me politically motivated – Freddie Blay

The National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Freddie Blay has accused the Commission for Human Right and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of prosecuting a political agenda against him in a case of contempt brught against him by the Commission, ABC News Ghana can report.

“This is politically motivated can’t you see?” A visibly upset Blay said to journalists at his first appearance in court over the matter.

Speaking to journalists after the court hearing, Freddie Blay stated that the allegations made by CHRAJ against him were false insisting that he had never treated the commission with contempt.

CHRAJ dragged Freddie Blay to court over allegations that he had persistently failed to respond to several requests to furnish the commission with information on the 275 buses he was supposed to have brought into the country and donated to constituency offices of the governing New Patriotic Party in the run up to the party’s National Delegates Congress in 2018.

CHRAJ prayed the court for an order to commit Mr Blay into prison custody for disobeying its lawful requests.

But Freddie Blay thinks otherwise. He has described the application by CHRAJ as “fatally flawed and procedurally incompetent.”

Mr. Freddie Blay in his quest for the chairmanship of the new patriotic party, promised and delivered 275 buses to each constituency office of the NPP to aid party officials in the discharge of their duties.

He says he did nothing wrong by purchasing the buses saying the move formed part of his contribution to his party, the NPP.

The case has been adjourned to July 24 later this year.