The Tema Development Company Limited (TDC) has disclosed that its preliminary investigations have uncovered the irregular sale of several parcels of land in Tema Community 24 to individuals linked to the Ofori-Atta family, including the biological brother of ex-Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
The revelation follows an internal review across various departments within the company, which has triggered calls for an external investigation due to what the TDC describes as significant irregularities.
There are suggestions that they exploited the presence of their relative, Alice Abena Ofori-Atta, who served as the Managing Director (MD), to acquire the properties.
However, whether they paid the required price for the lands remains unclear.
Names cited in the alleged transactions include Eno Ofori-Atta, the ex-deputy Managing Director of the State-owned Agric Development Bank (ADB), and wife of Earl Ofori–Atta—a brother of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta—alongside Dora Ofori-Atta, Nana Poku Ofori-Atta, Nana Kwame Ofori-Atta, Daniel Marfo Ofori-Atta, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, and Owusu Afriyie Prempeh. Several companies allegedly linked to these individuals have also been implicated.
Speaking at a press conference at the TDC office in Tema on Thursday, April 10, the new MD, Courage Makafui Nunekpeku, stated that the records available to the company suggest the sales occurred under the tenure of his predecessor, Alice Abena Ofori-Atta.
Mr Nunekpeku, stressed that the call for investigations was rooted in documented evidence and not conjecture.
Credit: theherald