Chairperson of the newly formed People’s National Party (PNP), Janet Asana Nabla, has criticized members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who participated in the 'Hands Off Our Hotels' demonstration.

She pointed out that during the NDC's regime, they also sold assets belonging to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), making their condemnation of the controversial sale of some SSNIT hotels to Rock City Hotel hypocritical.

In an interview with Keminni Amanor on TV3’s Hot Issues on June 13, Nabla stated,“SSNIT properties, hotels were sold under the NDC regime, and I wanted to write on a placard – ‘Operation vote NPP and NDC out’. They were sold to their party sympathisers – it doesn’t matter. None of them who did [participated in] the demonstration had the moral right to be there,” Janet Nabla observed.

As the former General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Nabla emphasized that the PNP did not join the NDC Minority MPs in the protest because it did not meet their standards.

“The PNP, we object the sale of government properties into individuals’ hands. They did a demonstration; we [PNP] were not part of the demonstration because the way they captured it, we did not fit in.”

Addressing the perceived hypocrisy, she added, "Those who sold assets are now protesting another sale. Instead of letting the PNP critique both NDC and NPP, they were there holding placards."

Hands Off Our Hotels Demonstration

On June 18, 2024, protesters took to the streets of Accra to demand a halt to the sale of a 60% stake in four SSNIT-owned hotels to Rock City Hotel, owned by Food and Agriculture Minister Bryan Acheampong. The demonstration, led by North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, started at the Labadi Beach Hotel and ended at the Christ the King Church.

Ablakwa, along with Organized Labour and other stakeholders, questioned the selection process of Rock City as the buyer and called for an immediate halt to the sale.

The calls for transparency and accountability in the sale of SSNIT’s hotel stakes reflect a broader demand for integrity in public asset management.