The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority, NPA, Hassan Tampuli, has paid to himself the sum ¢15.5 billion as rent allowance for one year.
The NPA boss caused the NPA to make this payment to him in June this year after he took up residence in the plush Villagio apartment building which costs $27,000 a month. Having decided to pay one year advance fee ($27,000 X12 months) which is $324,000, he got his accountant to pay him the cedi equivalent ( the exchange rate was then $1 to GH C4.8 ). This amounted to GH ¢1,555,200, which is the same as ¢15,5 55,200,000 (Fifteen billion, five hundred and fifty-five million, two hundred thousand old Ghana cedis)
The Villaggio Complex is located just opposite the African Regent Hotel near the home of Ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor in Accra. It is an apartment complex reserved for only the crème de la crème ofhe society.
The $27,000 Hassan Tampuli is splashing a month on his accommodation is 20 times bigger than the $ 1,500 Gifty Klenam, CEO of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, GEPA, was said to have been spending on her accommodation a month which sparked national outrage resulting in her announced dismissal.
Aware the expenditure would raise eyebrows, Tampuli has ensured that only a few members of his staff are aware of how he is blowing the Authority’s monies. However, the cat was let out of the bag resulting in quite a number of his workers becoming aware of the sleaze going on.
According to sources at the NPA, those who have become aware of how the Authority’s money is being wantonly dissipated by Tampuli on his accommodation have been left shell-shocked but no one dares talk for fear of being victimized especially since the CEO has powerful godfathers such as Vice-President Mahamadu Bawumia protecting him.
Investigations by the New Vanguard newspaper also revealed that Hassan Tampuli, while splashing so much of the tax payers’ monies on rent for himself owns a couple of houses in Accra.
It is free chop going on in government circles with many CEOs having a field’s day with the tax payers’ monies at a time government is unable to provide ambulances and common hospital beds.
Source: New Vanguard
