The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has hinted that higher hands are scheming to have the Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) ousted.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP expressed confidence that Pamela Djamson-Tettey will not be at post beyond December.
“Do you know, I can probably reveal for the first time that efforts are underway to do away with the Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company Limited?” he asked in an exclusive interview on TV3‘s New Day on Wednesday, October 11.
“What I am tracking, I don’t think she will be there beyond December.”
The lawmaker claims Madam Pamela Djamson-Tettey is “being accused of feet-dragging” because the higher hands “wanted her to sign off to this deal this long ago”.
Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa was speaking with respect to an agreement between the Company and a private firm, Heaven Builders Limited, to lease 38.14 acres of lands around the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to the latter at $85,021,340.
In what he has titled ‘Heaven Scandal’, the lawmaker, who has been behind at least 10 exposés in the last seven years, said Heaven Builders Limited made a counter-offer for 62.14 acres and requested an extension of the lease period from 45 years to 99 years.
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He told host Berla Mundi that separate assessments by independent institutions such as Ghana Institution of Surveyors and Brightwater Property Investments Limited have pointed to a “bad” deal.
He accused the private company of fronting for some individuals who want to capture state lands for personal gain.
“This whole scheme is state capture,” he stressed. “Let Heaven Builders take the lead, go and front, take the lands and then they will just distribute it among cronies. That’s what this is about.”
He served notice Parliament will probe this deal as he has already prepared his motion to be filed upon resumption.
He said the same persons behind Heaven Builders are those who raked in about GH¢150 million from the state in the name of Covid-19 tests at KIA with a company called Frontier Healthcare Service.