In a significant reversal of a controversial resolution, the federal government has introduced that it has cancelled two transactions initiated by the earlier Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration to promote Ghanaian diplomatic properties in Nigeria and Zambia.
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The announcement, made by Minister of Overseas Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, was backed by President John Mahama and revealed throughout a parliamentary session.
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In a press release posted on his official Fb web page on March 29, Ablakwa reaffirmed the federal government’s agency stance towards promoting off Ghana’s diplomatic assets.
We imply it after we say no diplomatic property belonging to the individuals of Ghana can be offered beneath our watch.
The minister additional disclosed that steps are already being taken to get well an unlawful half fee made in one of many scrapped offers.
Ablakwa made it clear that people who masterminded the scheme—a few of whom are reportedly on the run—will likely be tracked down and held accountable.
The ideas of ORAL, strict abhorrence for State Seize, and the nationwide curiosity shall proceed to information our selections.
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Ablakwa didn’t simply announce the cancellation—he made positive to place out a robust warning to anybody eyeing Ghana’s diplomatic properties, each domestically and throughout the nation’s 71 overseas missions. None of such properties can be put up on the market, in response to the Minister.
Discover is hereby served that none of our diplomatic properties both in Ghana or any of our 71 diplomatic missions overseas can be found on the market — fingers off!
