Owner of the Rock City Hotel and Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, has firmly denied claims by NDC representatives Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Sammy Gyamfi that his hotel is operating at a loss.
Ablakwa and Gyamfi asserted that they had obtained documents indicating the hotel’s financial struggles.
In response, Acheampong called these allegations lies during an interview with journalist Nana Yaa Brefo from Media General.
He criticized Ablakwa and Gyamfi for spreading false information and challenged Ablakwa to publicly produce the supposed document.
“Rock City is not making losses. No one anywhere can say that Rock City is incurring losses. I saw Okudzeto and Sammy Gyamfi in the studio making noise. Okudzeto, wearing a smock, exaggerated that Rock City is making losses and that he has intercepted documents from the GRA.”
“He has not intercepted any documents. Everything he is saying is lies. There is nothing truthful about what Okudzeto said concerning that matter. In the first place, Rock City has informed me, and I have checked with the GRA, that they have not even filed their 2023 taxes yet.”
Acheampong clarified that Rock City has not yet filed its 2023 taxes, which are due at the end of June, making it impossible for any document to exist.
“So, they have not filed yet. Rock City has not even gone to the GRA; they plan to file at the end of the month. So where did he get the document from? What he is saying is fabricated and a lie.
“Rock City has not even filed its 2023 taxes. They are due by the end of June. So where did he get it from? Today, I am daring him,” Mr. Bryan Acheampong said.
Acheampong expressed confidence in the hotel’s profitability and dismissed the claims as entirely fabricated.
To demonstrate his conviction, he offered to gift his Akosombo Intercontinental Hotel to Ablakwa or an orphanage of Ablakwa’s choice if the allegations were proven true.
He urged Ablakwa to substantiate his statements with actual evidence, emphasizing the baseless nature of the accusations.
“He should prove it, and I will gift it to him or any orphanage of his choice,” he dared Okudzeto Ablakwa.