Former Managing Director of the State Transport Company (STC), Nana Akomea, has strongly refuted allegations by the company’s Deputy Managing Director, Nurudeen Hamidan, claiming that the previous STC leadership sold off company properties.
Speaking on Citi Eyewitness News on Monday, December 8, Akomea described the allegations as unfounded, insisting that it was rather the former National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration that disposed of key STC assets during financially difficult periods.
He alleged that in 2010, the NDC government sold four acres of STC land in Takoradi to Melcom, the Managing Director’s bungalow at Ridge to Kaitec, and another parcel of land at the company’s headquarters to BCM.
“I got the impression that the gentleman is a bit hallucinatory. Hallucinatory means you just see things which have no bearing to reality because his first interview with the media was to accuse me of selling STC land like groundnuts and I hadn’t sold any STC land, not even a square land. How can anybody make that accusation. And he attaches the NPP. The people who actually sold STC land is the NDC when they were in government,” he stated.
Akomea explained that his administration instead worked to recover lands that had already been sold before he took office, including the parcel at the headquarters.
“It had been sold way before I went to STC, I tried to get it back. I fought a legal battle to get it back until the Attorney General told me that if I want to get it back, I have to refund the people’s money to them. As part of getting it back, we went into a partnership with Goil. It has gone back to BCM who STC sold it to,” he said.
