{"id":460533,"date":"2018-02-01T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/2-25bn-bond-ofori-atta-to-sue-chraj\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:30:23","slug":"2-25bn-bond-ofori-atta-to-sue-chraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/2-25bn-bond-ofori-atta-to-sue-chraj\/","title":{"rendered":"$2.25bn bond: Ofori-Atta to sue CHRAJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  1 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/50783293.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Ofori Atta 1\" title=\"Ken Ofori Atta 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517509823_943_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will \u201cimmediately\u201d drag the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to court, in an attempt to \u201cset aside\u201d some \u201cextraneous\u201d and \u201cancillary\u201d comments made by the ombudsman in its report covering a probe into the Minority\u2019s alleged conflict of interest against him in the issuance of $2.25billion bond in 2017, Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has said.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference, Mr Abdul-Hamid said: \u201cI have seen Ken Ofori-Atta\u2019s assets declaration forms and I wish to state that Databank was declared as an institution in which he hold shares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to state that CHRAJ\u2019s refusal to call Ken Ofori-Atta to explain this item on his assets declaration form, was a travesty of justice and failure of the test of natural justice,\u201d Mr Abdul-Hamid said on Thursday, 1 February.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cWe find that CHRAJ went beyond the matter of conflict of interest to make pronouncements on other matters that it was not seized with the capacity to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCHRAJ can make pronouncements on only conflict of interest situations and not issues to do with bond issuance and its ancillary subjects. That subject, per the Securities Industry Act, Act 929, is reserved for the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, the Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, made this point on the 3 January 2018 \u2026 In the same day, the matter of assets declaration was not before CHRAJ and CHRAJ was, therefore, not seized with the power to make a pronouncement on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find that it is these extraneous matters which CHRAJ commented on, which have become the ammunition with which the NDC has started a new round of attacks. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWe hereby serve notice that Ken Ofori-Atta will proceed to the court immediately to seek to set aside those extraneous matters in the CHRAJ report,\u201d Mr Abdul-Hamid noted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/RokZyj7r-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iqlgM8f7j8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>According to the government spokesperson, \u201cAs players in a democracy, we expected that the NDC will take the CHRAJ ruling in their stride and move on but it seems that the Minority is determined to keep this matter going using it for nuisance purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 48 updated by: 48 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 1 February 2018 Source: classfmonline.com 2018-02-01 Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will \u201cimmediately\u201d drag the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to court, in an attempt to \u201cset aside\u201d some \u201cextraneous\u201d and \u201cancillary\u201d comments made by the ombudsman in its report covering a probe into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":397969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}