A former Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Emile Short has accused the current head of the anti-graft agency for the seeming ineffectiveness of the commission.
He said even though the commission, per the law, does not require a formal complaint to zoom into action, the current leadership has failed to explore the power that it has.
“The CHRAJ of today is not the same as the CHRAJ of some 5 or 10 years ago. Today, CHRAJ is not that productive in investigating allegations of corruption because really CHRAJ does not need a complaint to investigate allegations of corruption, but it hasn’t done that as we used to do before,” he told Starr News.
When asked who to blame for the situation, he replied: “Well, I don’t know, you would have to ask the head of CHRAJ himself and to find out why they don’t do that lately,” he however replies in the affirmative to a question on whether he personally blames the current head Joseph Whittal for the lapses, saying “ definitely, absolutely”.