The case, which Okudzeto Ablakwa pursued to the Supreme Court level, concluded with him accident it but gave him leverage, which he has congenital on to become a advertence point for anti-corruption and anti-state abduction crusaders in the country.
On Friday, August 2, 2024, Nana Akomea, the Managing Director of the Accompaniment Transport Company and a protégé of Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, appear to Okudzeto Ablakwa and Ghanaians the affairs beneath which Jake Obetsebi Lamptey bought the accompaniment abode he lived in.
Nana Akomea explained that Jake Obetsebi Lamptey lived in the abode during his administering as abbot of three portfolios, including Abbot of Tourism and Diasporan Relations, Abbot for Presidential Affairs, and Abbot of Tourism and Modernization.
Following the end of the Kufuor administration, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, who was advancing to avenue the abode that had served as his official residence, was notified of affairs to advertise the acreage and the four-bedroom abode on it.
According to Nana Akomea, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey took up the action and purchased the house, a move which incurred the acrimony of Ablakwa at the time.
"Sammy (referring to Okudzeto Ablakwa), you mentioned my boss, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey's land, and it shows you the bind of the policy. The Accra Redevelopment Policy. Jake was active there clearly as a Abbot of State. That acreage was about 2 acreage minimum, and there's this four-bedroom adventure architecture sitting in the middle.
"When Jake was abrogation there, he got apprehension that the abode was activity to be sold. Jake heard that the abode was activity to be awash and fabricated an action to buy it. If he didn't buy and left, it was activity to be awash to addition else," he said.
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