Jubilee House Rebuts “Unfair Treatment” Allegations

The Presidency has rebutted allegations that unfair treatment at the Jubilee House has compelled some security personnel to step down from the post.

The former Head of the Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Mr Charles Owusu during an interview on Friday, September 1 alleged 77 security personnel attached to the seat of Ghana’s presidency decided to resign because they were not content with the treatment meted out to them.

He is quoted as saying, “Go to Jubilee House and see, the Police, Soldiers and everyone is complaining. It got to a point where almost seventy-seven security personnel decided to leave Jubilee House and go back to their units… What type of treatment are you giving them?”

This received a response from the Office of the Presidency on Sunday, September 3, 2023. In a statement, the Director of Communication, Eugene Arhin said the allegations were unfounded

“The attention of the Office of the President has been drawn to a statement made by Mr Charles Owusu on Friday, 1st September 2023, at the studios of Peace FM, to the effect that some seventy-seven (77) security personnel at Jubilee House have left their duty posts at Jubilee House because of “unfair treatment,” a part of the stamen said.

“Indeed, no security officer has left Jubilee House because of “unfair treatment” meted out to them at the seat of the presidency. Curiously, at no point in Mr Owusu’s submissions did he provide any evidence whatsoever to buttress these false claims,” he added.

He also stressed that there has not been any record of 77 resignations in security attachment in the tenure of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Rather, he said, all security personnel who have left were either sacked or went by choice.

“It is important to stress that any security officer who has left Jubilee House has either been due to disciplinary reasons, or as a result of a voluntary decision made by the security officer in question.”

He, therefore, urged the public to disregard the “false claims, and treat them with the contempt they deserve.”