Frederick Opoku is the Acting Rent Commissioner and Head of the Rent Control Department
The Acting Rent Commissioner, Frederick Opoku, has revealed how $1.7 million allegedly allocated for the digitalisation of the Rent Control Department under the previous government was spent without any contract.
Speaking on Okay FM on September 29, 2026, he alleged that $1.4 million was released as the first tranche for the project, but the digital platforms were not delivered, and he has not been able to find the contract for the deal.
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“Ghanaians are their own enemies, and we are killing ourselves in this country. Somewhere in 2024, we heard that rent control had been digitized under the NPP government. Can you believe that the former government dished out $1.7M of taxpayers' money for the digitalization process of rent control?
“Per my records today, I am sorry and sad because, out of this $1.7M, $1.4M which was the first tranche of money allocated; was released for the process without a contract. I have been asking for the contract since I came, but have received nothing. Thereafter, they came and demanded $360,000,” he said.
According to him, part of the proposed project also involved registering landlords and providing them with tablets, but that was not done.
“Lastly, they said they were registering landlords and would give them tablets, but that didn’t happen,” he revealed.
The Acting Commissioner said the situation has forced him to write to the Minister for Works and Housing for an investigation.
He said the department is now working towards establishing its own digital systems and would have continued from the previous project if the promised platforms had been delivered.
“I have written to the Minister of Works and Housing to investigate because we are poised to get our systems. If they had done the digital platforms, I would have taken over from where they left off and continued the work,” he disclosed.
Opoku further called for accountability and the recovery of the money if it is established that taxpayers' funds were misused.
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“Ghanaians should question the previous government over the current state of rent control. We can’t continue to create, loot, and share. We can’t allow taxpayers’ money to go to waste, so heads must roll… we must go and search for that money,” he called.
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