MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has expressed shock at the dumbfounding silence by president Nana Akufo-Addo over the sale of hotels of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), to Rock City Hotel Limited owned by the Minister of Agric, Bryan Acheampong.
Speaking on the Joy Super Morning Show om Monday, May 27, the MP reminded the President that he cautioned his appointees in 2017 that if their intention is to make money there is no place for them.
Okudzeto Ablakwa said the President’s appointees are acting otherwise and should be called to order by President Akufo-Addo.
According to Okudzeto Ablakwa, it has been more than a week since the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations Against corruption called on the president to intervene directly, yet he is remained utterly silent.
“All of those who are acting, the people selling our SSNIT, his cabinet Minister who is keen on buying, they are all his appointees. And he told us that if people want to come into his government to make money they should know that his government is no place for them, they should go to the private sector and make money. So I’m wondering what’s going on,“ Ablakwa wondered.
Also, Okudzeto Ablakwa announced his intention organize and lead a demonstration on June 18, 2024. He has since written to notify the Police of the the impending street protest which will end with the submission of a petition at the Jubilee House.
“I have served the Ghana Police Service with a notice of demonstration because the latest documents I have intercepted reveal that the parties involved are proceeding with the sale and purchase of state assets. The petition at CHRAJ has not halted their actions, as they are exploiting a loophole in the CHRAJ law, which does not grant injunction powers,” he explained.