The Attorney General’s Department has denied reports that a report submitted to the Department by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has gone missing.
The Department said the reports must be disregarded since it is false.
Some reports earlier this week said that a report on an alleged act of corruption involving waste management company, Zoomlion and an Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) had gone missing at the Attorney-General’s Department.
This was after the matter was investigated by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and a report sent to the AG in 2018.
But the Attorney General in a statement said all reports received from CHRAJ are receiving the needed attention.
“The CHRAJ report submitted in June 2018 is on a 2007 contract on Sanitation Improvement Programme and waste management. There is also a CID docket currently under review by the office which covers sanitation related contracts between 2012 and 2017. These are two separate matters and both the docket from CID and the CHRAJ report are receiving the necessary attention by our office,” the AG’s department said in its response.
It added that both were reports were forwarded under cover of a letter with the subject “SUBMISSION OF REPORT OF INVESTIGATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 10(3) OF THE WHISTLEBLOWER ACT 2006 (ACT 720),” hence when an inquiry was made by Manasseh Azure about an update on the Zoomlion case, that information could not be provided.
It noted “we, therefore, could not trace “a CHRAJ Report on Zoomlion” in our data system since those details were not details captured into the system. This cannot be interpreted by any stretch of the imagination that the CHRAJ report is missing,” it argued.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the department informs the general public that the fact that the title requested for is unknown to the department’s system does not mean the report is missing. The properly titled report is available to the department and currently being worked on,” the AG’s department added.