Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister – Akufo-Addo Told Me To Stop Bulgarian Embassy Land Grab

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, has dismissed allegations that the government has a hand in the construction works on-ongoing on land used to hold the Bulgarian Consulate in Accra.

Speaking to the media he indicated that President Akufo-Addo had even earlier instructed him to stop the construction on the land of the mission.

“I got involved in this particular Bulgarian mission land business on the express instruction of the President. It came to his (the president’s) attention when the Bulgarian Ambassador came to present his letters. The Ambassador raised it and the President asked me (about it) and then after that, the president called me and gave me instructions to go and sort it out,” the Minister explained.

“It was at that point that the president mentioned the name of the trespasser to me, that is how I got to know who the trespasser is and he said to me go and sort it out; since then we have been on it, trying to get this issue resolved amicably. We have at two or three stages even gone to the police to see if they can come in and throw out this developer but it has not been so successful.”

According to him, the Lands Commission has since put up signs to force the developer to stop work on the land.

Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has alleged that an appointee of the President, Dr. Yaw Adu-Amankwah, is the developer.

According to him, Adu-Amankwah is using his connections within government to brazenly, in a “lawless, provocative and mafia-style”, trespass on the Bulgarian Embassy property.