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Suspended Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Lauretta Vivian Lamptey has clarified that her predecessor Justice Francis Emile Short was the one who commissioned the renovation of the official residence of the state agency, and not her. �The renovation was initiated and commissioned by Mr Short, not by me,� Ms Lamptey told Joy FM�s Super Morning Show host Kojo Yankson on Friday January 16, 2015. �The contract was awarded in 2010. I met the property being renovated�it was being renovated and it was on the point that�s prior to my time and I think that�s also a very fundamental piece of information that the public was misled on,� Lamptey bemoaned. �The public was allowed to think that I came, saw a house, felt it was not up to my standards, somehow, and commissioned a renovation,� she said. President John Mahama, on the advice of the Judicial Council and pursuant to Article 146 (10) (b) of the 1992 Constitution, suspended Ms Lamptey on January 13, 2015. Chief of Staff, Prosper Bani, said in a statement on Tuesday that: �The suspension follows the establishment of a prima facie case against Ms. Lamptey by the Chief Justice, and the setting up of a five 5-member committee to investigate complaints made against her.� In August last year, Lauretta Lamptey moved into a hotel after her US$4,200 monthly rent for the apartment, including utility bills, at the AU Village expired. Her official residence, which was previously occupied by her predecessor Justice Francis Emile Short, was at the time being redesigned with several variations at her instance, all at a cost of GH�182,000.