The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is proposing the institution of an anti-corruption agency separate and independent of the commission. Chairman of the commission, Justice Emile Short said such a move will ease the enormity of tasks heaped on the commission. CHRAJ, established under Art. 456 of the 1992 Fourth Republican Constitution of Ghana with a mandate to investigate corruption allegations, cases of human rights abuses as well as conflict of interest cases by public officials in the discharge of their duties. According to Mr Emile Short, the current constitutional mandate of the commission is too broad, and believes his outfit will function a lot better if the anti-corruption task is ceded to a separate agency. “I think that this triple mandate is too broad, is unwieldy and does not enable us to work as efficiently and as effectively as we would want to,” he told Citi News in an interview on Monday. He also lamented of the meager resources allocated to the commission which in many ways has affected the smooth administration of the commission. “It also does not enable us to get the kind resources that we need to be able function as one institution that has a triple mandate. “The fact that we are one institution with a triple mandate has been lost on the Ministry of Finance and those who are responsible for providing resources to us,” he explained. The anti-corruption agency if and when instituted, should have the power of arrest and prosecution, he proposed. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana