ASEPA in a petition issued by its Executive Director, Mensah Thompson prays to "CHRAJ to subpoena Arhin's Asset Declaration records upon assumption of office as Director of Communication at the Presidency and compare them with the number of assets listed on the divorce petition then put it alongside his salary for the last four years."
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ASEPA drags Eugene Arhin to CHRAJ to explain the source of wealth acquired in 4 years
A political think-tank, the Alliance for Social Equity, and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin to explain his source of wealth acquired in four years since 2017.
Eugene Arhin
Eugene Arhin is currently in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Arhin has come under the spotlight after his wife, Gloria Assan Arhin, filed a suit at the Matrimonial Division of the Accra High Court against him.
His wife has accused him of adultery and assaulting her "both physically and verbally at the slightest opportunity for over a year now."
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Mrs. Arhin, therefore, wants the court to grant her custody of their three children, as well as some properties that the couple acquired while together.
Among the assets she is demanding are a 5-bedroom house at East Legon, an 8-apartment house at Bubiashie, an 8-apartment house at Tuba-Weija, two cars, and a sum of GHc2000.
ASEPA in its petition to CHRAJ stated that "there is an even bigger interest of the public which pertains the number of assets listed by his wife in the divorce petition as assets acquired by Arhin in the last four years for which she is making a claim of 50% on."
In the interest of public accountability for public officers, ASEPA has filed a petition invoking the jurisdiction of CHRAJ to investigate Eugene Arhin on the grounds of illegal acquisition of wealth.
It stated that "The average salary of a Presidential staffer is about GHC14,000 and so in four years Mr. Arhin's total gross salary estimates around GHC560,000 minus his liabilities or monthly expenditures.
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"Therefore Mr. Arhin must definitely explain to CHRAJ how he was able to acquire those staggering properties in four years considering the current compensation regime for Presidential staffers in Ghana."
Below is the full petition:
Folks, finally we have sighted a response from Mr. Eugene Arhin to the issues raised in the divorce petition by his wife.
First of all, we commend Mr. Arhin for exercising a high sense of maturity by restraining him from washing his marital linen in public.
In lieu of the pertaining issues raised against him by his wife, the appropriate forum to respond to them is the Court, and us happy he has chosen to do just that.
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However, there is an even bigger interest of the public which pertains to the number of assets listed by his wife in the divorce petition as assets acquired by Mr. Arhin in the last four years for which she is claiming 50%.
In the interest of public accountability for public officers, we have just completed a petition invoking the jurisdiction of CHRAJ to investigate Mr.Arhin who is also the Director of Communication for the Presidency on the grounds of illegal acquisition of wealth to be filed early tomorrow morning.
Among other things our petition would be praying to CHRAJ to subpoena Mr.Arhin’s Asset Declaration records upon assumption of office as Director of Communication at the Presidency and compare them with the number of assets listed on the divorce petition then put it alongside his salary for the last four years.
The average salary of a Presidential staffer is about GHC14,000 and so in four years Mr.Arhin’s total gross salary estimates around GHC560,000 minus his liabilities or monthly expenditures.
Therefore Mr.Arhin must definitely explain to CHRAJ how he was able to acquire those staggering properties in four years considering the current compensation regime for Presidential staffers in Ghana.
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Mensah Thompson
Executive Director, ASEPA
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