ACCRA — Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama had been cleared of corruption over the gift of a car from a construction firm bidding for a lucrative government contract, a report concluded on Thursday.The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) said in a 78-page report that a claim of conflict of interest against Mahama "has not been substantiated"."Full or further investigations into the allegations are not warranted," it added.Mahama’s government has not denied receiving the four-wheel-drive vehicle from a contractor in Burkina Faso, who had previously built a wall on Ghanaian Embassy land in Ouagadougou.But it dismissed opposition suggestions that the car was a bribe to get a road-building contract in Ghana’s Volta region that the same contractor later secured.Mahama called the accusations "baseless". The vehicle was a gift and had been added to the government car pool, his administration said.While it cleared Mahama of bribery, the CHRAJ, which is independe...
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