Speaker’s residence not sold to a private developer—Lands Commission responds

The Lands Commission has dismissed reports that the official residence of the Speaker of Parliament was almost sold earlier this year.
While speaking at the Speaker’s Breakfast Forum in Accra on Monday, November 20, Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin indicated that his residence was almost sold to a private developer.

“Many of you don’t know that even the residence of the Speaker was almost sold to the private sector,” the former lawmaker said.
“Actually, it was given out. It was when they went to register that the Lands Commission identified that that was the residence of the Speaker.
“Luckily, I was inside, so it was saved,” he added.

But in a sharp response, the Commission says the land on which the residence is situated has since 2003 been officially for the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament.
The response issued by the Acting Executive Secretary Ing. Ben Arthur said the Commission made an offer of allocation to the Parliamentary Service on Tuesday, February 14.
It said the Service accepted the offer and after paying the requisite fees was issued with a Certificate of Allocation.
“The Lands Commission is, therefore, unaware of any purported sale of the Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament’s official residence to a private developer.

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