Sentences with phrase «allegations against the commission»
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The church commissioned Lord Carlile of Berriew to conduct an independent investigation into the Church's handling of abuse allegations made against former bishop George Bell, who was also accused of abusing a child.
«If our religion of Islam comes down heavily upon commission of blasphemy, then Islam is also very tough against those who level false allegations of a crime.»
The commission will investigate how the Hills Christian Life Centre treated allegations against its founder, William Francis «Frank» Houston.
A former deputy governor of Osun state and a key chieftain of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Iyiola Omisore, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of blackmail over allegation of fraud being leveled against him.
The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, would on Tuesday appear before the Senate committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to answer questions on allegations of fraud preferred against him.
Before the 2016 election, Mr Martin Amidu levelled so many allegations against former President Mahama, the NDC and the Chairperson of the electoral commission including planned vote rigging, corruption etc..
Meanwhile, The spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, refused to react to the allegations levelled against the commission by Mrs. Jonathan when he was contacted on the telephone on Monday.
The allegations against the Deputy Commissioners and other staff have not been brought before the Commission only to surface at EOCO.
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Mrs Charlotte Osei has written to respond to each of the 27 allegations levelled against her by some Concerned Staff of the Electoral Commission.
Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Thursday called for an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics into the allegation of sexual misconduct made against him by a former legislative aide.
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has dismissed bribery allegations levelled against President John Mahama in connection with his acceptance of a Ford Expedition gift from a Burkinabe contractor.
The Electoral Commission received a formal complaint initiated in a letter by the Liberal Democrats» Home Affairs spokesperson, Chris Huhne, urging them to investigate the allegations against Osborne.
«In view of these allegations, the Chief of Army Staff, ai set up a 10 - man Panel comprising senior Army officers (both serving and retired) and members from the National Human Rights Commission, Nigerian Bar Association and other Civil Society Organizations, to investigate the veracity of the allegations made against the Nigerian Army.
The media trial and court cases against the former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison - Madueke on allegations levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are clear examples.
We will like to reiterate the Commission's position in regard to this matter as earlier communicated to you and state that the allegation levelled against Justice Umar were merely suspicions and consequently insufficient to prosecute the offence.»
The bench warrant followed a motion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which had filed different charges against Tompolo, over allegation of diverting N34 billion belonging to the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, to personal use and laundering of N22.6 billion.
Brzezinski revealed on the air that Cuomo had called her for a mostly off - the - record chat in an attempt to push back «hard» against allegations that he had meddling with the commission.
In the query, signed by Mr. Dayo Apata, the Solicitor General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary Magu is to explain what informed the filing of corruption charges against the tribunal chairman having being cleared of corruption allegation two times by the same Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The controversy over former President Goodluck Jonathan's campaign funds cropped up on Monday when a nominee to the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, Hajia Maimuna Aliyu, denied allegations levelled against her.
SERAP in an open letter to President Buhari asked him to refer the allegations of corruption and abuse of office against Baru to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission for investigation.
«Your immediate attention and assistance with this investigation is requested and I am prepared to fully cooperate with your inquiry in an effort to resolve this allegation made against me,» Klein wrote in a letter to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics amid mounting calls for an independent investigation.
SERAP's request followed growing allegations of corruption against Mrs Alison - Madueke and the recent disclosure by the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had recovered about half a trillion naira fragainst Mrs Alison - Madueke and the recent disclosure by the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had recovered about half a trillion naira frAgainst Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had recovered about half a trillion naira from her.
HAGF / SGF / 2015 / VOL.1 / 14 read in part «I have examined the report of the chairman, economic and financial crimes commission (EFCC) on the allegations against the chairman, code of conduct tribunal (CCT) your request for advice on the code of conduct bureau and tribunal act.
«The fact that the Districting Commission has gone out of its way to accommodate Vito Lopez is bad enough, but even worse considering the substantial allegations against Mr. Lopez as a serial abuser of women.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics settled its case against Fred Hiffa, formerly of Ostroff, Hiffa, & Associates, Inc., following allegations that he had violated the state's lobbying gift ban in 2006 by hiring Matthew Libous in 2006, retaining the Binghamton lawmaker's son for $ 4,166 a month for one year to a Westchester County - based law firm.
A call for a probe, by the National Women's Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Otiko Djaba, into sex - for - job allegations made against Mrs. Charlotte Osei, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, shows that Ms. Djaba does not respect women in Ghana, Convener of a pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) group, Powerful Youth of NDC, Set Otchere, has said.
The panel investigated allegations of violations of law and due process made against Lawal in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North East while it probed Oke on the discovery of large amounts of foreign and local currencies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, for which NIA is laying claim.
Judge Alan Simon, who presided over the Spring Valley Village Court and the Ramapo Town Court in Rockland County, was found by a judicial oversight commission to have a history of bullying and verbally abusing court staffers, and has been suspended with pay pending a review of the allegations against him.
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has rubbished allegations of abuse of office, causing financial loss to the state and breaches of the country's procurement law leveled against her as totally baseless.
The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has cleared the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, (IGP rtd) Mike Okiro of the allegation of N275.5 million fraud brought against by a staff of the PSC.
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei has rubbished allegations of financial malfeasance leveled against her by some employees of the Commission.
But he would not say whether JCOPE is probing the allegations against Klein, noting that the commission can not comment on investigation - related matters.
Not only that, on April 20, 2016, the EFCC under current Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu further cleared CCT boss through an official letter with reference number EFCC / P / NHRU / 688 / V.30 / 99 which stated inter alia, «We would like to reiterate the Commission's position in regard to this matter as earlier communicated to you and state that the allegations levelled against Justice Umar were mere suspicion and consequently insufficient to successfully prosecute the offence».
The allegations against the Westchester County DA chosen by Governor Cuomo to head a newly formulated state ethics commission were first reported in the New York Post.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics released the report on their investigations on the allegations against Lopez.
Out of frustrations, Martin Amidu has gone further to not only smear President Mahama with unpleasant lies but also, made grievously false allegations of rigging against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Madam Charlotte Osei.
In a 24 - page document, CHRAJ concluded that «The Commission is satisfied that the evidence does not support the allegations of corruption and abuse of power against Messrs A. Jinapor and Asenso Boakye... the allegations could not be substantiated whatsoever.»
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has exonerated two presidential staffers of corruption allegations made against them by Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, a sympathizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Deputy Chief of Staff, Abu Jinapor, says he and his colleague Francis Asenso Boakye, feel vindicated once again by the findings of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), dismissing allegations of corruption leveled against them by Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, a sympathizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
His comment comes hours after the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice's (CHRAJ) cleared Mr. Ofori - Atta of allegations of conflict of interest levelled against him in the deal.
Nwankwo added that while INEC had responded effectively to the emergent issues in the Rivers rerun by setting up a panel to probe the allegations against its personnel, Nigerians were interested in moves being made by the commission to address the issue of security interference by the agencies.
Anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, has suggested the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) probes the corruption allegations by Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, against two presidential staffers, saying that will be considered more credible than that of the police.
(The commission does not usually disclose its investigations, but did confirm that it was looking into allegations against ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez.)
The letter stated inter alia, «We would like to reiterate the Commission's position in regard to this matter as earlier communicated to you and state that the allegations leveled against Justice Umar were mere suspicion and consequently insufficient to successfully prosecute the offence».
The Legislative Ethics Commission released a report on the sexual harassment allegations against Assemblyman Vito Lopez.
[22] Subsequently, the Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint by Rahman against Andrew Gilligan for repeating these allegations in The Daily Telegraph without stating that the police had decided that there was no case to answer, causing the reporting to be «inaccurate and misleading».
The National Organization of Women and the good - government group Common Cause formally asked the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics to look into the circumstances surrounding Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's handling of sexual harassment allegations against Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and Silver's decision to quietly settle an earlier complaint against the Brooklyn Democrat with a $ 103,000 payment.
«Other recommendations include placing 15 officers on watch list, 9 officers were to be further investigated by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission over allegations leveled against them.
Dazang said the commission decided on Tuesday that INEC's officials, who were found guilty by the EFCC of allegations against them during the 2015 polls be sanctioned according to the commission's conditions of service.