There has not been any agreement yet to grant a request for former President John Dramani Mahama to keep his official residence at No 3 Prestige Link at Cantonments in Accra as part of his retirement agreement, the Spokesperson of the NPP Transitional Team, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said.
According to him, a decision on the former President’s request would be communicated as “soon as possible.”
He said President Akufo-Addo has just started work on Monday morning by first inspecting a guard of honour.
“He is just starting work as President. He now has the power to sign off on some decisions. There is a recommendation that has been made by our side of the Transition Team and he will ratify or disagree with that recommendation and then an announcement will be made,” Mr Oppong-Nkrumah said in a radio interview on Joy FM.
He was responding to a statement from Former President John Dramani Mahama's office that urged the public to ignore claims suggesting that he had "hijacked" his residence, contrary to what the Transition Act stipulates.
The Transition Act states that the former President should be offered an official retirement home and an office.
Following from that Mr Mahama has indicated that he would like to have Bungalow No.3, Prestige Link, Cantonments and its adjoining facilities as his official home and Bungalow No.6, 3rd Avenue, Ridge, Accra as his office.
Mahama's response
"Contrary to the claims being made that HE John Dramani Mahama, former President of the Republic of Ghana, has refused to vacate his residence, we wish to state and confirm that per the information officially communicated to the newly inaugurated administration following discussions by the Joint Transition Team, President Mahama will continue to maintain his current place of residence as his retirement home," President Mahama's statement said.
It added: "The decision and agreement on the place of residence and office for the former President was formally communicated to the new administration by the former Chief of Staff Julius Debrah on December 19, 2016.
The Sixth Parliament of the 4th Republic before its dissolution, also resolved that residential and office accommodation should be provided to the outgoing President, HE John Dramani Mahama in line with convention and existing precedent," the statement added.
"The claims that Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia is stranded and has nowhere to stay, is mischievous and deliberately intended to embarrass President Mahama."
"The Vice President is expected to take up residence in the House known as Australia House, which was previously occupied by former Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur.
An Official and Permanent residence for the Vice President is currently under construction, off the Switchback road. Dr. Bawumia will move into the new structure when completed."
….more to follow soon
Source: Graphic.com.gh
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If not wizardry then greediness will kill jm one day. Why do you want to hijack a state property that was allocated to you because of being Veep? He knows the reasons why he doesn't want to vacate that residence, and all his machinations will fail. ***barred word*** Mahama.
Shameful this is a tactical ploy just to disgrace the ex President. If I were him I will vacate the residence and allow them to decide on an issue which they had agreed on.. Time will tell. I have followed these issues from the late Mills time where he was nearly trapped to receive cars and am happy he did not only for the same people to turn around and say something else God is watching us all God bless our home land Ghana.. there is a lot of double standards in Ghana
Esi, the NDC sympathiser. Stick to the facts ; it is too early to start imputing arrogance. Mr Oppong has rather wisely come out to clear the air. I have been following your pieces. You are rather peeved that NDC lost. You used to benefit from create loot and share which is no more so you think NPP should be ***barred word*** castigated. NANA,please voot Mahama out of that residence else we the cadres will charge on him . Mahama is too greedy and so hotheaded. BOOT HIM OUT. YENTIE OBIAAAAAA - YOU REMEMBER IN ASANTEHENE'S PALACE. The people you meet when going up are the same people you meet when coming down.
Do some NDC supports understand the word Arrogance at all? This is simple just move out from the house you are not the one to determine where u will stay by the where were u staying before u became a president Mr Ford
Why is this man soo greedy like this? If previous vice preseidents had kept the house, would it have been available for him to occypy? What kind of a human being is this? And he has been the preseident for the past 4 years? No wonder the countries is like this.
NPP IS FULL OF '3RD CLASS' BOYS AND GIRLS. JUST WANT TO DIVERT ATTENTION OF GHANAIANS FROM TALKING ABOUT AKUFO-ADDO'S 'STEAL1NG & PLAGIARISM' BRIGADE. JOHN MAHAMA IS A DECENT AND GENTLE MAN WHOSE OBEYS RULES. NPP IS NO MORE AN OPPOSITION PARTY OOOOOOOO SO FORGET ABOUT PROPAGANDA AND PLAGIARISM AND FOCUS ON THE REAL BUSINESS OF GOVERNANCE. I USUALLY SEE JOHN MAHAMA DRAFTING HIS OWN SPEECHES IN SOME OF THE CEREMONIES. BUT SEE HOW NPP HAS CAUSED EMBARRASSMENT TO GHANAIANS AS BBC, CNN, ALJAZIRA, ETC ARE LAUGHING AT US. A SAD DAY FOR GHANA............................
JM, can relocate to Dubai or better still ask MAD AKUA DONKOR to give him one apartment for the meantime,when Wayome pays his money,he will definitely get his house, but for now there is no money in the coffers , so he should keep quiet and join the queue, coz ex pres Kuffour is still in the queue, besides the priority is to fix the economy he destroyed and not his house,
So in Ghana our politicians don't have homes before becoming president? why then when leaving office they want to hijacked state properties.
We would wake-up to a day when an outgoing prez would request the jubilee house as an official retirement home and that new one would be built for the incoming one. Hmmm asem seb3 Now transitional spoke person responding to questions from the media is tagged as being arrogant. Hmmmm pure bitterness on losers mind. Mother Ghana will surely work under H E Nana Addo Danquah Akkufo Addo's presidency.
Why do past ndc presidents always want to be given state properties they occupy during their tenure? Massa Mahama please spare yourself the embarrassment and quickly move out of that house. I am a Ghanaian and I don't want you to keep that state property. Guess another can request to be given the jubilee house as well if they so wish. # MahamaMustMove