Lauretta Lamptey must save CHRAJ from further embarrassment – GII

The campaign for the resignation of the commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has been revived following revelations that she is still living in an expensive hotel months after the news broke.

In August this year, Lauretta Lamptey moved into the hotel after her US$5,500 monthly rent for the apartment, including utility bills, at the AU Village expired.

Her official residence, which was previously occupied by her predecessor Justice Francis Emile Short, is currently being redesigned with several variations at her instance, all at a cost of Ghc182,000.

Lamptey is still paying 456 dollars a day for her hotel accommodation, meaning CHRAJ has spent Ghc161,302.5 on Lamptey’s stay in the hotel between August and November this year.

CHRAJ has been expunged from a list of Human Rights Commissions for an International study following the corruption exposé.

Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Vitus Azeem, in an interview with STARR NEWS said Lamptey must resign to save the commission further embarrassment.

“The best for her is to resign quietly and go. At least she should have moved out of the hotel by now because of all the noise that people were making.

“Even if the law still protects you, at least morally, it cannot be justified,” Azeem told STARR NEWS.