Paul Adom-Otchere (L) and Martin Kpebu
Paul Adom-Otchere has challenged private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu to substantiate claims that he owns four houses in Accra, asking him to provide evidence within two weeks.
“He said on a media platform that I have four properties in Accra and that he is going to show them. I sent him a text that, please, in two weeks, can you show the property?” Adom-Otchere revealed during an interview on Channel One TV on Monday, August 4, 2025.
The challenge follows growing public interest in the OSP’s bail conditions in the ongoing investigation into a revenue assurance contract awarded by GACL during Adom-Otchere’s tenure.
The former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) and broadcaster was detained on July 31, 2025, for failing to meet the bail requirement of providing two landed properties as surety, a condition he said he could not meet due to his lack of landed property in Ghana.
Adom-Otchere has consistently defended his claim that he owns no estate registered in his name, despite widespread public scepticism and criticisms from Martin Kpebu.
“I have no landed property in my name, and that is easily verifiable,” he maintained.
“If a person lives in a house for 20 years and says, I don’t have landed property, why is that awkward? The house address is available, the Lands Commission is available, everyone can check,” he added.
He further pushed back against societal assumptions, suggesting that shared family property is often wrongly attributed solely to men.
“I even look at it as a bit chauvinistic… If a man and a woman live together and have a house, it is believed that it belongs to the man. But people act differently,” he said.
Martin Kpebu, speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story on Friday, August 1, 2025, cast doubt on Adom-Otchere’s declarations, claiming multiple sources have informed him that the broadcaster owns several properties in Accra.
“Paul telling OSP that he has no property is false… Not one, not two. There are people who are buzzing my phone, telling me they will take me to show the properties that Paul paid them money to build,” Kpebu alleged.
“He was attempting to mislead the OSP,” he added.
Kpebu argued that the OSP should not rely solely on such declarations when setting bail terms, especially in high-profile cases.
Adom-Otchere, who was later released after the Jospong Group of Companies stepped in as surety under revised bail conditions, questioned the OSP’s initial approach.
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