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Reverend Victor Kusi Boateng has been cleared by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of charges that he possesses two passports under two distinct names.
The National Cathedral Board of Trustees’ secretary, Reverend Victor Kusi-Boateng, was the subject of a January 2023 petition to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North Tongu in the Volta Region, regarding conflict of interest, including holding multiple identities and other alleged criminal dealings.
But according to a CHRAJ report, he only has one passport under the name Kwabena Adu Gyamfi and has never received one under the name Kusi-Boateng as stated.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, an MP from North Tongu, made the accusation in a petition to look into the National Cathedral project that he submitted to CHRAJ.
In its final report issued on Monday, November 25, CHRAJ said that “The complainant alleged in the Complaint that, the 4th Respondent [Rev Kusi Boateng] holds two different passports under his two names i.e. Victor Kusi Boateng and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi. He stated thus ‘It was also later revealed that, 4th Respondent holds two different passports each bearing one of his two names with different dates of birth on each document’.
To buttress his point, Mr Ablakwa attached copies of the Rev Kusi Boateng’s passports bearing the name “Kwabena Adu Gyamfi” but failed to attach the one bearing the name “Victor Kusi Boateng”. When requested by the Commission to produce the passport bearing the Victor Kusi Boateng name, the Respondent by letter dated 9 March 2023 doubled down on his earlier assertion and responded thus:
“On the request for 4th Respondent’s Victor Kusi Boateng Passport, I have compelling cause to believe that he possesses another passport in his Victor Kusi Boateng identity similar to how he successfully obtained a passport in his Kwabena Adu Gyamfi identity. So far, I have secured his Kwabena Adu Gyamfi passports including a diplomatic Passport which I duly attached in my January 16. The search however continues for his Victor Kusi Boateng passport,” Mr Ablakwa said in his petition.
Rev Kusi Boanet on the other hand maintained that he does not possess two passports under his two names, CHRAJ said.
In his 25 January 2023 Comments to the Commission, it was stated, “The Petitioner in Paragraph 27 of his petition has alluded to the fact that the 4th Respondent has “two different passports each bearing one of his two names with different dates of birth on each document. The 4th Respondent denies this assertion. He has never held a passport under the name of Victor Kusi Boateng”.
In order to properly address this matter, the Commission wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration’s Passport Office on July 10, 2023, requesting information on passports bearing the names of Rev. Victor Kusi-Boatheng and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.
Read excerpts from the CHRAJ below:
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
