Jubilee House is close to Nima – Sam Pee Yalley

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The controvertial presidential palace in the heart of Accra.

By William Yaw Owusu

Friday July 26, 2011.
In an attempt to rubbish the NPP’s call on President Mills to move into the nation’s presidential palace, Jubilee House, Sam Pee Yalley, a leading member of the NDC has advised the President not to live there because it is close to Nima, a suburb of Accra.

“I do not think the Jubilee House or whatever they call it should be any place that the President should live. There is even an Embassy (French) behind it, Jesus Christ…TV3 is at the corner…Nima is at the place there,” he said.

Mr. Yalley, a legal practitioner advised President Mills on Radio Gold’s ‘Alhaji and Alhaji’ programme last Saturday saying “Sir, don’t move there today or tomorrow because there could be traps.”

“I have joined some other people to say that if there is any dignifying place for the President to stay it is Peduase Lodge because there the Presidency has all that it takes including the Vice President to be there without any interruptions and if the Adenta road is constructed properly there will be no trouble at all.”

He said if President Mills moves to Peduase, it would help to link the Eastern Region and the Greater Accra by “a certain administrative structure so we can then open the place.”

He said cited traffic congestion as a primary reason why President Mills should not move to the Jubilee House, which the NDC reverted to the name, Flagstaff House.

Mr. Yalley further said the security of the presidency is paramount therefore the president should not use the facility adding “this building was built by another country…where now countries are sending spies to look at locations for certain information, you want to expose your president there…No way.”

He said the 37 Military Hospital is cited close to the facility and the radiation equipment they use could be interrupted by the installations that would be done at the Presidential palace.

“The headquarters of the Defence Ministry is even a more appropriate place for the President…it is close to the military,” he said.