General News of Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
In the wake of revelations that the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is in the process of divesting its shares in some hotel assets to a company owned by a sitting minister, some other revelations have come up relative to one of the properties in question.
A 2022 letter to SNNIT copied to the Chief of Staff relative to the sale of the Golden Beach Resort has been shared on social media by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the MP who first reported about the SSNIT divestiture plans.
The letter written on the letterhead of the Edina Traditional Council raised issues with the move to sell the facility stating that the concern was triggered: "...when Honourable Bryan Acheampong, Member of Parliament for Abetifi Constituency visited the site with investors.
"Our main concern is that the land on which the Resort is situated is the property of the Edina Traditional Council," the letter signed by Nana Kodwo Condua VI, the Omanhene of the area read in part.
Ablakwa has petitioned CHRAJ over the matter and insisted that a conflict of interest situation might have played out in the transaction.
He captioned his post as follows:
"Even as SSNIT fails to respond to the constitutional and fundamental issues raised in my CHRAJ petition on the sale of Ghana's hotels to Bryan Acheampong, more documents are emerging about the repugnant levels of arm-twisting and utter disregard for due process.
"SSNIT and the Presidency contemptuously ignored this 2022 protest from the venerable Omanhen of the Edina Traditional Area, Nana Kodwo Condua VI, and continued with the sleazy and unconscionable deal to sell Ghana's treasured hotels to the Minister of Agric.
"No matter what it takes, we shall make sure these 6 hotels remain the valuable properties of all Ghanaians and not one NPP politician," Ablakwa added.
Even as SSNIT fails to respond to the constitutional and fundamental issues raised in my CHRAJ petition on the sale of Ghana's hotels to Bryan Acheampong, more documents are emerging about the repugnant levels of arm-twisting and utter disregard for due process.
— Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa (@S_OkudzetoAblak) May 20, 2024
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