...Price: $3M; Agent gets $180,000 Commission
The Ghana Ambassador’s Residence in the U.S.A. at Benton Place around Massachusetts Avenue fell under the paper Gavel of EKUBAN and Associates on August 27 2002 at a price of $3,000,000.00.

Mr. Alfred Ekuban is a Ghanaian Real Estate Agent in the Washington D.C. area in the U.S. Until the selling of the Ghana’s Ambassador’s residence Alfred Ekuban had not sold a house whose value was more than $500,000 before.

According to Ghanaian voice sources, in the U.S, even a two storey house in the same vicinity five blocs away from the Ambassador’s residence, has been valued at $3.4 million. “Looking at price differentials and the fact that the Ambassador’s residence is a three storey house, it is believed that godo godo, godo, or kwata kwatakwata the house should have gone between $4.9 million and $5,000,000. Alfred Ekuban as tradition demands in the U.S. is going to get 6% of the selling price, which is roughly $180,000.00.

When our story first broke out on Monday, September 2, Nana Akomea the Deputy Minister for Tourism spoke on Radio Gold and confirmed our story and revealed that he had recently visited the area and had seen that the place was in a deplorable state and that it needed renovation that would be three times the value of the House.

We wish to reveal to Ghanaians that this is a blatant lie and that Nana Akomea professionally dribbled the truth because after Ambassador Koomson had been recalled to Accra as an Ambassador, the Residence was renovated at a cost readily for Ambassador Allen Kyeremateng to move in.

This fact of the renovation can be checked with Mr. Kingsley Karimu who was then the Head of Chancery of the Embassy in Washington D.C. and now at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.