CHRAJ Boss snubbed parliament - MP

Ms Lauretta Lamptey, Head of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has recently come under serious bashing after it emerged that she was spending extravagantly on her accommodation without working.

According to reports, the CHRAJ Commissioner is paying $456 daily at a hotel where she currently stays because she claims her AU Village luxurious apartment; her official residence, is being renovated at the cost of Ghc182,000.

This has caught the attention of many Ghanaians who are already complaining of high cost of living in the country. They don’t understand why a Human rights commissioner will spend so much on just accommodation in the face of a shaking economy.

Ms. Lamptey is in fresh trouble as Member of Parliament for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Frank Annor Dompreh, has accused her of always snubbing parliament.

Hon. Annor Dompreh disclosed that any time the CHRAJ boss is summoned before the Special Budget Committee (mandated to oversee supposed independent bodies like CHRAJ), “she is either out of the country or she’s very busy. The only people we see are her two deputies."

According to Hon Annor Dompreh, the CHRAJ boss continually ignored Parliament and on some occasions sent her two deputies to represent CHRAJ on her behalf. He says the Special Budget Committee of Parliament have had reason to sack her deputies from parliament and subsequently took a decision to report her to the Speaker of the House.

The Nsawam-Adoagyiri MP is urging parliament to subpoena the commissioner of CHRAJ to appear before the committee to answer questions on her work.