The minority in Parliament Thursday questioned President Akufo-Addo’s commitment to fighting corruption in his administration following his outright rejection of claim of price inflation in the purchase of a building in Oslo, Norway for use as Ghana’s embassy.

The property, the Minority alleged was purchased at a cost of $12.1
million instead of $3.5 million and that it is considering petitioning
the Special Prosecutor or CHRAJ to probe the transaction.

But addressing the allegation for the first time, President
Akufo-Addo dismissed it as baseless during his second media encounter
with the press in 2018 on Wednesday.

“Clearly, it is the pattern of the opposition. Throw these
accusations in the air, when they are debunked we don’t hear anything
about it and they just moved to the next allegation. That’s what we have
seen,” he said.

“The allegations are made, they are found to be empty, we just moved
on and fabricate the next one and it will go on and it is going to get
worse. 2019, a year to the election and these people are so desperate,
it is going to get worse. The fabrications will continue and continue,”
he stressed.

But speaking to Starr News, minority spokesperson on Foreign Affairs
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said the statement by the President is
unfortunate and a clear indication of his un-readiness to fight
corruption in his government.

“Yesterday at the president’s media encounter, what the president
succeeded in doing was to convince all of us that he is not committed to
the fight against corruption.

“The President’s posture to suggest that the Oslo scandal are just a
creation of the Minority and that they are just mere allegations,
nothing more to show for it. When everybody in Ghana knows that this
whole Oslo affair began with the foreign ministry presenting documents
to us that they are going to purchase properties in Oslo for 16.5million
dollars,” he said.