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A deputy Minister of Tourism, James Agyenim-Boateng, has insisted that the former Presidents of Ghana, JJ Rawlings and John Agyekum Kufuor, were involved from the conceptual stages to the completion point of their mansions at the Trasacco Valley Estates. Aides to the ex-Presidents a few weeks ago made the headlines when they broke the news that their bosses have rejected the government mansions because they were not involved in the planning, specifications of the house and the location among others. However, Agyenim-Boateng on Tuesday, told the Citi Breakfast Show that those are wild allegations because the views of the two existing heads of states were duly taken. �Contact persons of the two former presidents were kept in the known,� Agyenim-Boateng said. �At every point in time when government was going to make payment they were kept in the known; at every single point and there was no objection. � He reiterated that the keys to the two mansions purported to have been rejected by the former presidents have not been handed over to government, therefore it is strange to say the buildings were rejected. �It is not as if anybody in government woke up one morning and said that government has provided accommodation for the two former presidents without regard to what their own specifications were or without putting them in the known. That is far from the truth. � He maintained that there is no security threat with regards to the mansions and the ex-presidents are safe to relocate to their new residence.