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The Ghana Youth Movement (GYM) has stated that it suspects foul play regarding the investigation into the renovation of the house belonging to the mother of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.

In a communicaque issued and signed by its leading members, Messrs Kwabena Tandoh and Nana Agyemang Prempeh, GYM stated that their petition to the commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) was not to investigate a house belonging to Nana Agyemang Konadu Rawlings as stated in CHRAJ’s letter, but rather, a house belonging to the mother of the former first lady at the expense of the state.

According to GYM, their petition was in three forms, explaining that the first was for CHRAJ to investigate who did the renovations on the said house since they (GYM) have three Deputy Ministers on tape saying that it was government that undertook the said project. Secondly, it (CHRAJ) was to investigate which government institution paid Mr. Herbert Mensah, who claimed to have undertaken the renovation, after he had presented receipts.

GYM maintained that if the ministry has denied of any knowledge concerning that renovation, then the onus lies on CHRAJ as an investigative institution to find out from Mr. Herbert Mensah and the three Deputy Ministers, Mr. James Agyenim Boateng, Mr. Okudzato Ablakwa and Mr. Omane Boamah who made statements on this issues on an Accra based radio station and a television station respectively.

It reminded CHRAJ that statements made by publics figures, both on Radio and Television are always used as a bases of trails in courts, adding that there are such examples in the recent comments purported to have been made by Mr. Emile Short on a television station which was used against him on the Mabey and Johnson matter, and therefore, makes statements made by the three deputy ministers and Mr. Herbert Mensah also liable for investigation.