Witch-hunting of CHRAJ Boss Must Stop!!!

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• Abbey 11 years ago

  imagine the rubbish being spewn out. She is the spending officer and authorises all expenditure within her juridiction. An accountant cannot spent a cent without her approval. Please, do your research before you write. trucki ...
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  imagine the rubbish being spewn out. She is the spending officer and authorises all expenditure within her juridiction. An accountant cannot spent a cent without her approval. Please, do your research before you write. trucking with NPP simply speaks volumes for itself. What does that mean?

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

  Abbey, your NDC appointed this woman without setting up any fiscally responsible mechanism within which to operate! And you call yourselves "Social Democrats"? Whatever happened to common sense?!
  
  By the way, what is "a spe ...
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  Abbey, your NDC appointed this woman without setting up any fiscally responsible mechanism within which to operate! And you call yourselves "Social Democrats"? Whatever happened to common sense?!
  
  By the way, what is "a spending officer"? You are full of it, aren't you?

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• Ghanaman 11 years ago

  So Emile Short did it, so others must do the same?

  So Emile Short did it, so others must do the same?

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

  Are you bastards running an Animal Farm, where different officials are governed by different set of rules and standards? Come on, use your gumption, if you have one.

  Are you bastards running an Animal Farm, where different officials are governed by different set of rules and standards? Come on, use your gumption, if you have one.

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• Ghanaman 11 years ago

  How far back do you go to see who else did it before you take action on a breach?

  How far back do you go to see who else did it before you take action on a breach?

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• pits 11 years ago

  Madam Lamptey is innocent.What she is being accused of is a system failure,the system allows executive accommodation for her office and any move to accommodate her in the absence of her official residence must be approved by ...
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  Madam Lamptey is innocent.What she is being accused of is a system failure,the system allows executive accommodation for her office and any move to accommodate her in the absence of her official residence must be approved by government and more so who knows what her salary is if she is entitled to 20% of that for her accommodation.
  
  The whole thing is witchunting,if the system allows its chief executive to rent accommodation befitting the status of that office then she has done no wrong.I dare challenge a forensic auditing of government officials who have been accommodated outside their official residence and lets see whether it will be different from what the lady is accused of.Leave Madam Lauretta Lamptey alone.

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• Komla,london 11 years ago

  Okoampa-Ahoofe,for me am not so much interested in the content but your choice of vocabulary and expression-it's fantastic.
  it's 3:30am here in london but i decided to read your article to perfect my english.
  your salutary ...
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  Okoampa-Ahoofe,for me am not so much interested in the content but your choice of vocabulary and expression-it's fantastic.
  it's 3:30am here in london but i decided to read your article to perfect my english.
  your salutary mastery of the english is a blessing to some of us even though i have no political affiliation.I salute u Sir.Keep helping me perfect my english.Welldone Sir

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

  Prof, I read your article on Joyonline last Sunday so I stopped reading this after the first paragraph and do hope that you have not updated it.
  
  I disagree with your position that because other public officials have been a ...
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  Prof, I read your article on Joyonline last Sunday so I stopped reading this after the first paragraph and do hope that you have not updated it.
  
  I disagree with your position that because other public officials have been and are still involved in paying expensive accommodation at the cost of the state, she should not be sanctioned. It's almost tantamount to saying that Ghana should not take actions to stop waste, corruption and mismanagement. You are also playing the "Jesus Christ" mentality of let the one who has no sin throw the first stone at her.
  
  Your response to Abbey's contribution again undermines your arguments. CHRAJ was established as far back as six months on coming into force of the 1992 Constitution and it is the duty of the head of the organisation who also has overall responsibility to establish good and strong fiscal mechanism and not the appointing authority.
  
  Moreover, Ms Lauretta Vivian Lamptey stands accused of receiving her monthly salary without working for it. Did Justice Emile Short also commit such fraud or dishonesty whilst in office?
  
  You posed the question if the CHRAJ boss has been accused of incompetence, being ineffective or mismanagement. The answer is yes. The public are of the view that during the days of Emile Short and Anna Bossman, CHRAJ was visible and proactive on matters of human rights and administrative justice, which is not the case since she took over as head. This is the very woman who claimed CHRAJ cannot do its work effectively because of lack of funds, yet she spent heavily on her personal needs, failed to distribute vehicles that could have been used in the regions and district offices with the flimsy excuse that there were no funds to employ drivers because of an embargo on new staff. Have you asked yourself how many drivers could have been engaged with her one year accommodation cost? What did she use the funds from the Danish government and yet she still complained that there was no funds to do the work. All these in the midst of GYEEDA, SADA, NSS, etc.
  
  I very disappointed with your suggestion that Ms Lamptey should join the NPP. Is it because she can then claim that she is being persecuted because she is a member of NPP as others do in Ghana after committing crimes, whilst those from NDC get away with murder?
  
  Prof, if Ghana is going to be able to deal with corruption,incompetence and mismanagement, then, it must start with Lauretta Lamptey because she was the head of the body that is expected to check such abuses by public officials. This is not witch-hunting and in fact, she should have resigned long ago if she has any conscience or morals.

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• Kwame 11 years ago

  Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe you are right on this score.

  Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe you are right on this score.

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• pits 11 years ago

  There is no suggestion that Ms Lamptey had breached any rule governing how the chief executive is housed neither has there being any suggestion of impropriety.She insists that everything she did was what the rules allowed and ...
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  There is no suggestion that Ms Lamptey had breached any rule governing how the chief executive is housed neither has there being any suggestion of impropriety.She insists that everything she did was what the rules allowed and that had been the normal practice So why her if it is not witchunting. You and your folks are just unreasonable and just a baying mob who are not using their head.

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 11 years ago

  If professional incompetence is the charge against Ms. Lamptey, the news reports are not showing this aspect of her "crime."
  
  We could make the same arguments about other public officials in equally exorbitant rental accomm ...
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  If professional incompetence is the charge against Ms. Lamptey, the news reports are not showing this aspect of her "crime."
  
  We could make the same arguments about other public officials in equally exorbitant rental accommodation facilities. The Minister of Works and Housing, or whoever is in charge of public property, ought to be sanctioned as well for apparent chronic laxity in the performance of his/her generously salaried duties.
  
  I also don't know that the mere demand for evenhanded justice has anything to do with your so-called Jesus Mentality; as well, I vehemently protest your characterization of Jesus Christ as a promoter and/or condoner of corruption, and wish you would promptly retract the same.
  
  The fact of the matter is that the Commissioner for CHRAJ ought not to be made to double as the Chief Financial Officer and Auditor of the same statutory institution, in much the same way that the Chief Justice is not the Budgetary Officer or Payroll Chief of the Ghana Judicial System.
  
  Kofi, what is so difficult to understand about this?
  
  And yes, I candidly believe that Ms. Lamptey is being selectively persecuted! Were this not the case, President Mahama would not still be at post.

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• Ras Nabia 11 years ago

  I know this man very well, he is the junior brother of the CHRAJ boss

  I know this man very well, he is the junior brother of the CHRAJ boss

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• Christopher K. Kpeli 11 years ago

  The CHRAJ boss can't be left out. she is the spending officer.simpliciter!

  The CHRAJ boss can't be left out. she is the spending officer.simpliciter!

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• "A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE" AHOOFE 11 years ago

  Yes, Ms. Lauretta Lamptey is no worse than those before her [ Government ministers and civil servants ] who knowingly wasted taxpayers' money. However, by using the phrase "witch-hunt", can you provide evidence to support tha ...
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  Yes, Ms. Lauretta Lamptey is no worse than those before her [ Government ministers and civil servants ] who knowingly wasted taxpayers' money. However, by using the phrase "witch-hunt", can you provide evidence to support that claim?

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