News:
August 16, 2011
Stephen Kweku Balado Manu, Member of Parliament for Ahafo Ano South, says President John Evans Attah Mills’s acceptance of a house which was allegedly donated to him free of charge from real estate developer REGIMANUEL GRAY ESTATE, is the most shameful act that he has brought on himself.
According to the MP, no philanthropic act is done without a profit motive be it in the short or long term.
The Searchlight newspaper, on Monday August 15th, published the story alleging that on its front-page with a screaming headline; “Manifesting The Better Ghana…Mills Grabs Brand New Mansion!
According to the story, the building has several rooms and the latest of comforts and is situated on a piece of previously bare land which is behind the Asanfra Street residence of the President.
“The walls round the residence have been raised higher and fortified, and behind it the building is rising rapidly…Previously it had been assumed that the new edifice was going to house the security men guarding the president.”
The Director of Communication at the Presidency, Koku Ahyidoho, has confirmed the building was a token from the real estate developer which would house the security personnel of the President who building is situated near the said building.
However speaking to ghanamps.gov.gh, the Member of Parliament for Ahafo Ano South, Stephen Balado Manu, states that it will be hypocritical on the part of President Mills to accept the building when he had earlier instructed his appointees not to accept gifts.
“This is a man who has been portrayed as a humble and principled person, if he directs his subordinates not to accept hampers, why will he then accept a huge gift such as a house, this is double standards’’ he said.
“ We were here in Ghana when a farmer came out to say he was renovating the house of Ex President Kufour who at the time was a sitting President, there was hue and cry by the then opposition NDC and now that they are in power, we have someone donating a new house to the President, this is condemnable’’.
Stephen Balado Manu, adds that if President Mills wants Ghanaians to take him serious that he does not preach virtues and practice vice then he must reconsider his ways.
By : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh