Two sitting Ministers of the Mills Administration, Dr. George Sipa Yankey, then Health Minister and Amadu Seidu, who was serving at the office of the President, resigned their positions to clear their names after they were implicated.
Alhaji Boniface Abubakar, a former Water Resources, Works and Housing Minister in the NPP regime, was among 8 Ghanaian officials whose names came up during the Southwark Court hearing, which revealed that UK Construction firm, Mabey and Johnson in 2009, bribed government officials mainly in third world countries in Africa and Asia to win construction contracts.
Lawyers of those implicated asked the Courts to restrain CHRAJ from continuing the investigations because then CHRAJ Commissioner Emile Short was accused of making statements that prejudiced the outcome of the investigations on Metro TV.
The Court upheld that argument but CHRAJ appealed against the ruling which has now gone in its favour.
Acting CHRAJ Commissioner, Ms. Anna Bossman told Citi News the Court of Appeal said the allegations of bias against the Commission could not be upheld based on the evidence provided.
The ruling according to Ms. Bossman means that CHRAJ can resume investigations into the matter.
She said investigations will resume in the shortest possible time to finish up what the Commission had started.
However the Police Criminal Investigations Department on Tuesday March 15 launched its own investigations into the case and has since been interrogating the officials involved.
Lawyer for CHRAJ, Thaddeus Sori, has told Citi News the CID’s involvement will not stop the commission’s investigations, explaining that the CID will go a step further to press criminal charges against the suspects whilst CHRAJ comes out with recommendations.
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