Ben Peters, together with about 25 unidentified men, were reportedly arrested
for allegedly blocking access to an apartment building close to the seat of government,
the Jubilee House, and also for blowing a police siren on one of his vehicles,
on Monday, April 7, 2025.
But this is not the first time the Nigerian billionaire business tycoon has
made news headlines in Ghana.
During the government of former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
Ben Peters, who is believed to be a friend of the Akufo-Addo family, came up in
a number of corruption scandals.
He is the owner of Frontiers Healthcare Services Limited, the company that was
responsible for the COVID-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA)
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022, now Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa,
claimed that Ben Peters amassed a profit of GH¢984.7 million (US$130 million)
from COVID-19 testing in just 18 months, at the expense of the Ghana Airport
Company, which made only US$8 million.
In 2023, Ben Peters’ name came up again in the ‘Heaven Scandal,’ also shared by
Okudzeto Ablakwa, who is the Member of Parliament for the North Tongu
constituency in the Volta Region.
Ablakwa claimed that 62.14 acres of airport lands priced at over US$6.3 million
per 1.7 acres in 2019 were sold to Heaven Builders Limited, a company owned by
the Nigerian billionaire, who he said is a friend of Edward Akufo-Addo, alias
“Bumpty,” a younger brother of Akufo-Addo, at US$1.3 per 1.7 acres.
Aside from the two companies mentioned above, Ben Peters owns extensive assets
in the oil and gas and mining industries in several countries, including Ghana.
He is the founder and CEO of Aiteo, which is believed to be Africa's largest
indigenous oil producer, and Bravura Holdings, a vertically integrated mining
company developing platinum, lithium, steel, copper, and gold assets in
countries throughout Africa.
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
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