HOT AUDIO: Ghana Gas officials contradict each other over ownership of land

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Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC), George Sipa Yankey has offered a contrary explanation over who owns the land on which the organisation’s multi-purpose office complex is to be cited.

Joy News on Monday, November 3, 2014 published the first of a series of reports on the cost of Ghana gas office project, which has ballooned from an initial $7.5million to $44 million, representing 500% increase.

In the report, Manasseh Azure Awuni reported how the company, which falls under the Energy Ministry bought the land from Frank Buah, the brother of the Energy Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, when it could have bought it directly from the chiefs.

In a reaction, Communications Director of GNGC, Alfred Ogbamey said the company acquired a 54 acre land for the project but claimed that 17 acres of that land happened to have been acquired earlier by Frank Buah.

But speaking on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM Tuesday, November 4, 2014, Mr. Sipa Yankey said the entire land was acquired from Mr. Frank Buah at GhÈ¼2,000 per plot.

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