President John Dramani Mahama has reversed the sale of lands belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo government.
This directive will ensure that the adjoining land at Airport Residential which now houses about seven organizations and individuals who claim to be owners of these lands will be reversed, and the land returned to the state.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Okudzeto Ablakwa sees this move as a right one, and has heaped praises on the President Mahama.
According to Okudzeto Ablakwa, he will ensure no state land or property will be sold under his watch.
“President Mahama has directed that all allocations and sale of land belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the previous government be immediately reversed.
Yesterday’s presidential directive will ensure that the Ministry’s adjoining land at Airport Residential which some 7 organizations and individuals claim to be the new owners would now be cancelled and preserved for the people of Ghana.
I am enormously grateful to President Mahama for his unwavering patriotic and decisive presidential backing.
Under my watch as Foreign Minister, no land or property of the Ministry, located either home or abroad would be sold,” he wrote on his Facebook wall.
He is a four-term Ghanaian legislator representing the good people of North Tongu in the Volta Region.
Hon. Okudzeto Ablakwa has had an illustrious public service career spanning some two decades.
For nearly eight years Ablakwa between 2017 and 2024, served as a Ranking Member of the select committee on Foreign Affairs. Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is currently the Chairman of President John Mahama’s flagship anti-corruption drive, Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL).
Ablakwa was appointed Deputy Minister for Information by the late President John Evans Atta Mills in 2009 making history as the youngest Deputy Minister of Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
In 2013 President John Mahama appointed him as the Deputy Minister for Education in charge of Tertiary Education.
The minister-designate academic credentials include reading Political Science, Philosophy and Economics for his first degree at the University of Ghana, an LLB from the University of London, an MSc in Defence and International Politics from the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, an MA in Communications and PR from the University of Leicester and an Executive Certificate in Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Governance.
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