There is tension brewing at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation over management’s decision to release a large parcel of land belonging to the state broadcaster to a known politician at Akwatia in the eastern region.

According to workers of GBC, the large tract of land belonging to GBC is situated at the heart of the Akwatia Township in the Eastern region. This land, the workers noted was released to the former member of parliament of Akwatia to develop by the former Director General of GBC.

The workers noted that this has been endorsed by the new director General of the state broadcaster.

The workers have vowed to resist the decision aimed at disposing off all landed properties of the Corporation.

“GBC wants to give our land at Boadua Akwatia to Baba Jamal. He is taking it and replacing with a land in the bush somewhere in Topreman. This was engineered by Don Chebe and now being followed through by the current DG supported by Head of Estate, we are therefore pleading with all the stakeholders to intervene before things get out of hand,” a worker of GBC disclosed.

When the Director General of GBC, Dr. Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow was informed about the issue he said, ”We have not sold or released any land to Mr Baba Jamal he is not even part of the issue. What happened is our land at Akwatia is being encroached upo. So we received a proposal from the Denkyembour District Assembly that they could use the land to build a senior high school and give us another land at the outskirt of Akwatia. It is a proposal we are considering. We haven’t given the land to them yet”.

Asked why he would hand over a land in the heart of Akwatia when he could even use it to build estate houses for the staff of GBC, he said we don’t have money to do that and we cannot allow private properties to be built on it .

Workers have however argued that documents covering the land were handed over to the former member of Parliament Baba Jamal Yesterday at Akwatia and want government to halt the takeover the reverse the decision. They claim that honorable Baba Jamal has built a two bedroom house on a portion of the land.

Meanwhile latest information reaching this paper indicates that a plot of land owned by GBC at Association international School near the Airport Traffic Light in Accra has been sold. We will soon update our readers when our entire information is legally scrutinized.

Efforts to get Honorable Baba Jamal on phone to hear his side of the story proved futile.