News:
August 1, 2013
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has vowed never to check out of bungalow No. 2 Mango Street at the Ridge Residential area to NPP Chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey.
This was after an Accra High court directed government to hand over the keys of the house to the NPP Chairman who bought the building which he occupied while serving as a the Chief of Staff under the erstwhile Kufour Administration.
Several Months after the Supreme Court dismissed the case in which, two Ministers, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah and Edward Omane-Boamah challenged Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey’s acquisition of the bungalow, he is yet to receive the keys to the property.
The court then directed government to release the keys to the house which is currently being occupied by Hon.Nii Lamptey Vanderpuije who is also the Member of Parliament for Odododiodioo.
The two ministers, in their personal capacities, in 2008 brought a suit against the NPP Chairman over his purchase of bungalow No. 2 at Mango Street, Ridge residential area, Accra, when he was the Chief of Staff at the Presidency.
They were seeking to restrain by order of injunction the Chairman of the Lands Commission of Ghana and the Chief Registrar of Lands at the Land Title Registry from registering the title in the name of Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey.
However the Supreme Court by a majority decision dismissed the case.
But in an interview Hon. Nii Lamptey Vanderpuije has declared that he would only vacate the house when he has been instructed by the Ministry of Water Resources Works and Housing which locate to him the house in question.
He said to the best of his knowledge the late President Mills directed that no state bungalow should be sold and that position has not yet been reviewed by President Mahama, and until that is done he still remains the rightful occupant of that house.
Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh