The National Petroleum Authority (NPA), has denied media reports that its Chief Executive Officer has spent an amount of 15.5 billion cedis on a year’s rent advance. According to a statement by the Authority, a story carried by the New Vanguard and the online portal www.thenewstateman.com on September 4, 2018, has it that, CEO of the NPA, Hassan Tampuli, has squandered the said amount.
The story suggested that the CEO paid himself an amount of 15.5 billion cedis as rent allowance for a year. The statement further said 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, which costs 27,000 dollars a month.
It again said Mr. Tampuli further paid himself a year’s advance fee of 324,000 dollars and asked his accountant to pay him the Cedi equivalent of the said amount.
While claiming the story as untrue, the NPA statement adds that the allegation is scandalous and malicious and calculated at tarnishing the reputation of the Chief Executive.
The NPA is therefore asking the editors of the media houses to furnish it with information to back their claims.
Meanwhile, the NPA has given the editors seven days to retract and apologize.
