Akufo-Addo’s daughter, niece ‘stealing’ state lands – Ablakwa alleges in new exposé

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo, his daughter, Edwina Akufo-Addo, and his niece, Adeline Akufo-Addo Kufuor, of being involved in the unlawful acquisition of prime state lands.

In his latest exposé, shared on social media on Monday, December 23, Ablakwa alleged that two businesses—Nsuomnam Restaurant, owned by the president’s daughter, and The Lotte Boutique, owned by his niece—were both constructed on state lands.

The lawmaker outlines his allegations as follows:

The Lotte

• A formal search by my oversight team dated August 21, 2024 at the Lands Commission confirms that the land being occupied by The Lotte is public land.

• The official search certificate pursuant to our application has Job Number: LCGACS292534972024 and is dated 26th August, 2024. It is signed by Collins Tetteh, Assistant Land Administration Officer. (See attached).

• Significantly, the records at the Lands Commission indicate that the land in issue which covers 0.33 acre (0.13Ha) remains a State Land acquired under Certificate of Title dated August 23, 1894 for Hausa Reserve.

• The Lands Commission adds that this land has not been affected by any plotted activity. From the Lands Commission’s records, it remains a mystery how the President’s niece came to possess that land and why official records do not reflect recent actual developments on that piece of land.

• There is also no record of lease or payment for that piece of prime Cantonments land. It is also worthy of note that the current use of the land for the nearly five-year-old fashion boutique is not the original purpose for the state’s acquisition raising more legal infractions.

Nsuomnam Restaurant

• In the case of land occupied by Nsuomnam, the Lands Commission has two conflicting records on the same piece of land.

• Following an 8th September, 2024 formal search application by my oversight team, the Lands Commission issued a Search Certificate signed by Elder Ekow Edwards, Assistant Geomatic Engineer dated September 10, 2024.

• The Search Certificate with Job Number: LCGACS320223852024 indicates that the Nsuomnam land which covers 1.19 acre (0.46Ha) is State Land acquired under Certificate of Title dated August 23, 1894 for Hausa Reserve. (See attached).This particular Search Certificate also states that there is no plotted activity.  

• Strangely, another formal search on the same Nsuomnam land carried out earlier on 21st August, 2024 produced a different outcome.

• This time the Lands Commission official Search Certificate with Job Number: LCGACS292485782024 and signed by the same Elder Ekow Edwards presents the following contrasting history: State Land acquired on August 23, 1894 for Hausa Reserve; leased to Johnson Baoteng Siriboe for 99 years by Government on 03/06/1969;

• Mortgage dated 26/02/1970 from Johnson Boateng Siriboe to Barclays Bank D.C.O. (Do find attached).

• It must be noted that even with this second conflicting Search Certificate, the original 1894 state acquisition is not in dispute. It is particularly unacceptable and most condemnable that the ever complicit Lands Commission will present conflicting search certificates signed by the same official on the Nsuomnam land.

• The conflicting search certificates also fail to offer credible accountability on the true state of that public land and how Edwina Akufo-Addo’s Nsuomnam took over.

• President Akufo-Addo’s apparent reprehensible conflict of interest conduct in this family land grab affair must be the subject of a special probe.

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who doubles as Chairman of the NDC’s 5-member Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) committee pledged that the incoming John Mahama-led administration will probe all state lands to retrieve looted lands from the possession of government officials.

Meanwhile, the Office of the President is yet to respond to these allegations.

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