Ohene Ntow
billed for occupying gov’t
bungalow
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot
Accra, Sept 25, Ghanadot - The
General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP),
Nana Ohene Ntow has been billed an
accumulated amount of GH¢ 96,000 by the government for
illegally occupying a government bungalow from 2001 to 2009.
Nana Ohene-Ntow is accused of illegally staying in the
bungalow long after he ceased to be a public officer.
There are also allegations that the former government’s
spokesperson on Finance’s wife turned parts of the bungalow
into a commercial “shitor” and fried rice factory.
In an interview on Citi FM, the Deputy Minister of Water
Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Hannah Bisiw said, the
Ministry of works had to surcharge Nana Ohene Ntow after he
failed to respond to a letter which requested him to provide
documentation that gave him the legal right to stay in the
bungalow.
The Deputy Minister added that “the time elapsed so we’ve
accompanied that letter with another letter asking him to
pay for the rent from 2001 when he occupied the place to
2009 when he left the bungalow."
According to the Deputy works and Housing Minister, the NPP
Secretary General would be charged a commercial rate of one
thousand Ghana Cedis per month for turning the bungalow into
“a small scale shitor and fried rice factory".
“We are going to surcharge him a commercial rate because he
turned the place into a commercial centre…we are looking at
a GH¢ 1000 per month for the eight years because, unless he
gives us letters to prove otherwise we consider that he
lived there illegally so we consider it as squatting and he
is going to be surcharged for the number of years that he
lived there.” She said
Meanwhile, Nana Ohene Ntow has confirmed that he has
received the said letter from the Ministry.
According to him, he was allocated the bungalow by the
government when he was appointed Government’s Spokesperson
on Finance.
“My appointment was as Government’s Spokesman and that
appointment was made by the President of the Republic. As
part of the condition I was to receive a fully furnished
official accommodation".
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General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP),
Nana Ohene Ntow has been billed an
accumulated amount of GH¢ 96,000 by the government for
illegally occupying a government bungalow from 2001 to 2009.....More
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