How state lands priced at $500,000 were sold to Akufo-Addo appointees for just $12,000

Martin Kpebu, a member of the preparatory committee of Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL), has made startling revelations about some findings made by the committee.

Speaking on TV3’s KeyPoint program on Saturday, January 18, 2024, Martin Kpebu disclosed that some parcels of land were offered to vegetable exporters by the Akufo-Addo government for $12,000.

The astute private legal practitioner lamented the situation, raising concerns about the extent of supposed state capture under the previous administration.

Martin Kpebu surmises that the documents available to the ORAL preparatory committee point to the possible annexation of all state properties by the Akufo-Addo administration.

He noted that Ghanaians acted timely and responsibly by not voting for the NPP, as that would have plunged the country into an irredeemable crisis.

“The vegetable farmers association was asked to pay $500,000 for one plot of land. That is where they keep the vegetables before they export them. Just next to them, this same land was offered to ministers, etc., for GHC160,000. If you convert it, it’s $12,000.

“It’s within the same space. The documents are out there, and the land is around Cantonments. We are making efforts to retrieve all the documents. If we gave them another chance, the whole of Ghana would have been gone. This state capture should stop. Members of the erstwhile administration bought the lands at $12,000,” he said.

Martin Kpebu previously alleged that former NIB boss Nana Attobrah Quaicoe had offered to return a state land he allegedly bought at a low rate.

Kpebu said on TV3 that Nana Attobrah made the gesture following a discovery by the ORAL preparatory committee.

Speaking on the show, Kpebu stated, “The head of the National Investigation Bureau, formerly BNI, reached out to Okudzeto due to the advocacy surrounding the land issue and stated that he would return the land and withdraw his claim. He requested to be excluded from further involvement.”

His claims were, however, denied by Nana Attobrah, who threatened to sue him.