Minority leader backs calls for CHRAJ boss to resign

The Minority leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has backed calls for the CHRAJ boss, Lauretta Vivian Lamptey to resign from office for alleged financial misappropriation.

According to him, the expose’ of financial abuse by the head of the anti-graft agency amounts to gross indiscretion on her part in view of the clouts of her office.

“That conduct amounts to gross indiscretion on her part. She ought to have known better giving the remit of the commission that she presides over. This, in my opinion, is a clear case of financial misapplication of public funds. She should have exercised better judgment” the MP for Suame told Citi FM.

He added: “ I think that she should initiate the process herself by resigning. At least that will save her and reposition the commission. The feeling that we had with her when she had to leave the board of the Commercial Bank; if it were anything to go with then, she wouldn’t resign by herself” he stated.

Lamptey has in the last few weeks been embroiled in controversy over her official accommodation.

She is reported to have, within 37 months – from July 2011 when she was appointed to July 2014 when her rent at the AU Village expired – spent US$203,500 on rent and utilities, at the expense of the State.

She is currently lodging at a hotel and paying the Cedi equivalent of $456.25 per day, in the interim, as her official residence undergoes renovation at a cost of Ghc182, 000.