CHRAJ opens office in Ga South Municipality

Weija, Oct. 29, GNA - The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has opened a new office at Weija, in Ga South Municipality, in an effort to bring justice to the doorsteps of the people. This is expected to reduce pressure on the CHRAJ office at Amasaman in the Ga West District, from which the Ga South Municipality was carved.

Ms Anna Bossman, Acting CHRAJ Commissioner, who was speaking on Friday during the inauguration of the office, expressed her appreciation to municipal authorities for offering the office structures and basic equipment to CHRAJ.

"As a new municipality, you have demonstrated your pro-active and progressive force by initiating the setting up of this office," she said.

Ms Bossman noted that in addition to its headquarters, CHRAJ has 10 regional, two sub-regional and 99 district offices across the country. She cited budgetary constraints, as being the main cause of the Commissioner's inability to establish offices in all districts, as stipulated by the Constitution.

She, therefore, called for more budgetary allocation and donor assistance towards the works of the Commission so that it could achieve its goals.

Ms Bossman noted that CHRAJ's vision is to see a society where accountability and transparency reigned and where human rights and human dignity are respected.

She said CHRAJ would continue to maintain its impartiality, independence, objectivity and plurality of its workforce and also collaborate with other governance institutions and civil society. Ms Bossman noted that the Commission had, over the years, succeeded in winning a high degree of public legitimacy and that could be attributed to the accessibility of the body at the local level. She urged staff of the Commission to justify the trust that management had reposed in them by upholding professionalism, integrity, and fairness in the discharge of their duties. "I also wish to appeal to all aggrieved persons to patronise the services of the Commission." Mr Sheriff Nii Oto Dodoo, Municipal Chief Executive, expressed appreciation to the Commission for opening an office in the area.