Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, Madam Rose Atinga Bio, has it made!

In the past year, since becoming the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, she has accumulated enough money to fast-track the construction of a multi-storey building rising several floors, when less than a year ago, it was less than at window level!

The multi-storey mansion, which had been sitting uncompleted and idle for many years, is now past the second storey level, and it is all too clear that she intends to go much higher! The building, a huge multi-storey mansion with stores on the ground floor is located at Agbogba, School junction in the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency of the Greater Accra region. Information reaching the Searchlight newspaper indicates that the building was not even up to window level about nine months ago, but has now reached a two-storey mansion, gradually approaching the third and subsequent floors.

When we spoke to her, she confirmed that she was building. "Yes I am building - Why, am I not entitled to build as a police officer? I have been in the Service for a very long time. I have gone on peace-keeping, my son has been in abroad for some years now so I can build", she stated. She also stated that just like any other Ghanaian, she is entitled to her personal property because she works and receives monthly salaries.

I also have family, and it is my responsibility to make property for them", she said. She disclosed that she started the building before assuming her current position, as the Regional Police Commander in Accra. She however could not give the exact date for the commencement of her multi-million cedis building.

But questions have been raised about the value of the property vis-a-vis her earnings as a senior police officer, particularly with regard to the speed at which the building has been proceeding since Madam Bio-Atinga became the Regional Police Commander for Greater Accra. Speaking to the Searchlight newspaper yesterday, a social commentator (name withheld) said it was of public interest for the State to establish the sources of funding and value for property. "As a public officer, and like every other Ghanaian, Madam is at liberty to put up any type of building she deems fit, but looking at the nature and value of this property, we think that we must find out how the funds were raised for this property", she said.