A Member of Parliament (MP) who has always been preaching against profligate expenditure, especially by public officials, has himself been caught in the same web.
Not only has he put up what sources describe as a flamboyant mansion in his constituency in the Volta Region, but has also completed another mega-mansion, this time, at Adjiriganor, a plush residential enclave in Accra.
He has a similar property at Airport Hills, another prime residential area in the capital city, Accra, where he currently resides, and commutes to Parliament each day to debate issues of national importance.
Multiple sources, who spoke to The Chronicle, alleged that the MP, whose name is being withheld for now, until he became a politician, was not known for doing any business, or employment, that would have fetched him the vast wealth to put up those mansions in his hometown and Accra.
Though he was popular during his days at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he had some clashes with the authorities, he never displayed any sign of an ostentatious lifestyle, until he was appointed a Deputy Minister.
The garrulous MP then became the master of all that he surveyed in government, much to the consternation of some of his peers and seniors in government.
Though he was noted for carrying money in excess of his income in the booth of his car, he never showed any sign that he had become a wealthy man, until he finally contested for and entered Parliament.
Today he is the proud owner of the two mansions, which a source sarcastically described as ‘Arabian King Mansions.’
The Chronicle investigations have so far not established any concrete evidence of corruption against him, however, how he has managed to acquire the properties, after venturing into politics a few years ago whilst driving his ‘Alatsa’ saloon car, is the Gordian knot the intelligence community is trying to unravel.
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