Alban Sumana Bagbin, Speaker of Parliament, has disclosed that his official residence was almost sold to a private developer.
He revealed on Monday, November 20th at the Speaker’s Breakfast Forum hosted at the Alisa Hotel in Accra that the land had been sold away to a private developer without his prior notice.
He refused to name the private developer or who effected the transfer, but he stated that if the Lands Commission had not recognized the building, the land would have been re-registered to the private developers.
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“Many of you don’t know that even the residence of the speaker was almost sold to private sector. Actually it was given out, it is when they went to register that the Lands Commission identified that that is the residence of the speaker. Luckily I was inside so it was safe,” he said.
At the same event, he vowed that Ghana’s Parliament will not bow to the International Monetary Fund’s whims and caprices.
The Bretton Woods Institution, he said, had requested that Parliament enact the Affirmative Action bill through a certificate of urgency.
However, Alban Bagbin has stated that the law is too crucial to be pushed through Parliament and has urged the IMF not to interfere with the legislative process.
