The Herald’s investigations into Monday’s arrest of Nigerian businessman, Benedict Peters, have revealed that the incident had nothing to do with the John Mahama administration or any dealings involving his companies, including Frontiers Healthcare Services. Instead, it was purely a landlord-tenant dispute.
Peters reportedly blocked the road leading to and from the plush Aurora Apartments in Kanda, near the Flagstaff House—between the 37 Military Hospital and the Presidency—prompting desperate tenants to contact the Presidency through the Director of Operations, ex-Police Commissioner, Nathan Kofi Boakye, for intervention.
This came after several unsuccessful requests for him to move his cars, which had been parked across the residential complex’s exit route.
Ghanaian businessman, Ibrahim Mahama, was seen at the premises to verify that some of his workers could not report to work, because Benedict Peters had blocked the road and refused to allow them, along with the property owners’ officials, to exit the facility until his demands were met.
Peters, who owns eight apartments in the building, owned by Ernesto Taricone, Executive Chairman and CEO of Trasacco Group, reportedly insisted on receiving a key to access all of them—contrary to an arrangement granting him access to only one key per apartment, with no permission to access the other apartments.
