Former Foreign Minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Akwesi Osei-Agyei is threatening to sue government for dispossessing him of his plot of land which currently sites the Foreign Ministry.

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) halted the sale of state lands in some prime areas in Accra under the Accra Redevelopment Policy.

The policy was instituted to facilitate the redevelopment of some government lands and houses in prime areas like Cantonments, Airport Residential Area, Kanda, Switchback and Ridge.

This means that all those who acquired lands or bungalows under the policy had to return it to the state.

But the former Foreign Minister told Asempa FM Thursday that government forcibly took the land situated at Airport city without compensation.

According to him, even though the aforementioned land was earmarked for the construction of the new Foreign Ministry, Lands and Forestry re-demarcated the land for residential apartments.

“I applied for the land and I received a reply from the Lands Ministry assuring me of my parcel of land. I made a first payment of 15 thousand cedis after we lost power; this is all documented” he noted.

Osei-Agyei said he did not err in acquiring state lands because there is no law prohibiting public officials from buying state lands.

He intimated that if government thinks that there is something wrong about the process, it should debar Ministers from purchasing government properties.

Osei-Agyei is demanding a compensation of two billion cedis from government for paying the electricity, water and land title bills.