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When The Informer published that the offer by Mr. Samuel Crabbe, the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) former Greater Accra Regional Chairman and former Vice-President of the defunct Ghana International Airlines (GIA), to pay the Ghc40 million needed by his party (NPP) to finance its in–house elections, was money from ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor, we were, as usual, insulted and called all sort of names.
Now the cat is out of the bag and The Informer has put to shame its detractors. A front-page story in yesterday’s issue of the TODAY newspaper dropped a bombshell, indicating that the selfsame Samuel Crabbe, who boasts of volunteering to pay the GHc40million bill to finance NPP’s elections, had been sued for owing his landlord $43,000.
Below, unedited, is the story as carried out by the TODAY newspaper about how broke Mr. Samuel Crabbe is, yet bragging of sponsoring the NPP’s elections with a whopping GHc40 million. See below:
Landlords chase Sammy Crabbe
...Over unpaid US$43, 000 rent.
Barely 24- hours after declaring his intention to foot the bill for New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) election of polling station officer, formal Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the party, Mr. Samuel Crabbe, has come under intensive pressure from his landlord.
Family members of the S.K. Glah in the Mepe Traditional Council in the Volta Region are anxiously chasing Mr. Crabbe demanding US$43, 000 office rent he owes them for many years.
The family members could not fathom why Mr. Crabbe who apparently cannot afford to pay his outstanding rent debt on House No. C7253 in Asylum Down, Accra, which building is the Greater Accra Regional office of the NPP, will the resource to pay the full cost an entire party activity.
In an interview with Today in Accra yesterday, a personality who holds power of attorney for the S.K. Glad family, Mr. Isaac Etse Glah, disclosed that an Accra High Court (Land Division 4,) presided over by Justice Mrs. Margaret Webourne, on Thursday December 1, 2011 ordered Mr. Crabbe to pay up the outstanding rent debt to the Glah family.
Mr. Etse Glah also revealed that in 2012, Mr. Crabbe paid GH¢10, 00.00 for the use of the office but refuses to pay the arrears, hence the family has moved to re-arraigned Mr. Crabbe before an Accra Human Right Court (4) which trial is said to begin on October 18, 2013.
Mr. Etse Glah provided documentary proof to back his claim that the office in question was, indeed, rented by Mr. Crabbe on May 17, 2005. He explained that, originally, Mr. Crabbe used it as the office of Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) to provide service in micro-finance and human resource development.
According to Mr. Etse Glah, his family, on February 18, 2006, entered into a tenancy agreement with the Crabbe foundation, represented by Charles Crabbe for the house. He said per the agreement the tenancy agreement commence on April 1, 2006 and was to expire on April, 1 2008and the house was to be used exclusively for the objectives of the Crabbe Foundation.
He revealed that the rent was fixed at $1,000.00 a month or its cedi equivalent, Mr. Crabbe paid $6000.00 on the day the agreement, and the parties agreed that on or before March, 15, 2006, he would pay $18,000.00, being the balance of the two- years rent.
Mr. Etse Glah asserted that it was further agreed that the tenancy would be renewed after two years on terms to be agreed on by both parties, the agreement was signed and Mr. Crabbe took possession of the house.
Thereafter, he said Sammy Crabbe and his brother who is also the second defendant in 2011 case, Charles Crabbe, used the said house as the headquarters of the Greater Accra regional branch of the NPP where that party’s activities – press conference, meetings, etc - were held.
“The defendant erected signboards, appropriately that effect. All these were done without the plaintiff being informed by the defendant and the contrary to the agreement …the defendant also made structural alterations to the premises and presented a bill of works captioned ‘Rehabilitation and Redecoration of the New Patriotic Party Regional Office Building, Asylum Down, Accra’ to the plaintiff”, he noted.
However, the plaintiffs Glah family members argued that they did not enter into any agreement with the NPP party or any branch of the party.
On presenting the said bill of works to the plaintiffs, the 2nd defendant demanded that the cost of works be used to offset the rent for the next two years from April 2008 to April 2010. The defendants thus paid $10,000.00 as of the rent for that period and insisted the plaintiffs use face value presented the bill of work to offset the remaining rent of USD33, 200.00.
The plaintiffs, however, disagreed and engaged works to restore the premises to the former state of cost of in excess of UDS22, 000.00.
The plaintiff demanded that Mr. Crabbe should quit the premises as agreed in the tenancy agreement and even reported the matter to the rent control Department, which after investigating the matter, advised the defendant to settle the outstanding rent owed to the plaintiffs. The Defendant however failed or refused to comply.
Today made calls to and dispatched several text messages to Mr. Crabbe’s cell phone, but it was switched off.