The Campaign Coordinator for the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) 2016 election campaign, Kofi Adams, says the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) report partly clearing President John Mahama of any wrong doing in the Ford gift saga, vindicates the party’s long-held position, and also shames his critics.
“Today is a day of shame for them, they [critics] have been exposed that they are only trying to destroy a gem, a pearl that we have,” he said on Eyewitness News.
Kofi Adams, who doubles as the National Organizer of the NDC, also hailed the report as proof that President John Mahama “is not somebody that anyone can bribe, that President Mahama did not receive a bribe and that the gift of ford was not intended to bribe him or influence him in anyway,”
Following a petition by the youth wing of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), demanding a probe into the conduct of the President when he accepted a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor as Vice President in 2012, CHRAJ said it did not find him guilty of bribery and conflict of interest.
CHRAJ however noted that, the President breached the gift policy, when he accepted the gift as Vice President in 2012.
Kofi Adams conceded that although President Mahama may have violated policy as concluded by CHRAJ, he asserted that, the outcome “doesn’t mean that he [Mahama] is guilty… they did not find him guilty as far as the whole gift matter is concerned.” He contended further that, President Mahama had purely noble intentions when he accepted the gift as “he had in mind clearly what he was going to use the gift for and that the gift was meant to be used by the state.”
As further justification of President Mahama’s actions, he said, “look into history and look at conventions and practice. Almost all our Heads of State from Dr. Kwame Nkrumah all the way to President Kufuor and the late President Mills, have all at one time or the other received gifts, some of which they have passed onto the State.”
Source: citifmonline.com
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WHAT BRIBE DOSE TO YOU, READ EXODUS 23:8 ( NIV )DO NOT ACCEPT A BRIBE ,FOR A BRIBE BLINDS THOSE WHO SEE AND TWISTS THE WORDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS. GOD MEN WERE ASKED TO LIVE THEIR OFFICE BECAUSE OF BRIBE READ 1 SAMUEL 8 1-5
O,Kofi Adams, how do you think koraa? And what do you take Ghanaians for? You have such a warped mind you think every Ghanaians thinks like the NDC leadership who breed corruption in their corruption building which was built was the stolen money from the tax payer. But God is not asleep. Reading between the lines, CHRAG is just telling us that their hamds were tied and that the prez's so called gift was a bribe-FINITO!!! And if they can Ford car bribe what else wouldn't they take? Julor, Fiafitor Ewi balaawo. NDC-they can S T E A L OOOOO. Julor brigade!!
Have i k.o taken any Ford car rom a contractor and awarded a contract to him? Kofi Adams , please put on your thinking cap and come again.
Adam you and your corrupt boss John mahama are the ones to be ashamed of yourselves. After John Mahama had received the so call gift car from Mr.Kanazoe John Mahama did refused to apply the Gift Law guarding this Nation, this has exposed John mahama for being a Lwaless President whom I can't never trust, If not for a Journalist Manassah that EXPOSED JM on this so called gift car, no one would have known in this country. John Mahama is not only che..ap but also law1ess President
The black man is cursed. This whole case smells very bad. Politics has blinded all of us to the extent that we put party before country. This Burkinabe contractor only met the then Vice President Mahama because he had been looking for a contract from Ghana and had been unsuccessful for so long. But after meeting JM, he is now winning contracts. This case is so clear. If even you cannot prove bribery, there is certainly conflict of interest here. Ghana is finished. We must learn to love our country Ghana..
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