The President of the Republic, Prof. John Fiifi Atta Mills, will no longer use his office and residential accommodation from January 2011, as he is set to begin the coming year, which he has dubbed Action Year, from the Flagstaff House.
Meanwhile, the President is said to be unwilling to move into the Flagstaff House, ostensibly because he is reeling under the guilt of his own criticism of the construction of the presidential palace by the previous Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party government.
Information available to The Publisher newspaper, however, shows that frantic efforts are underway to get the presidential palace into a shape that will suit the taste of President Mills.
Work on the house is carried out in the night.
All the security gadgets at the presidential palace have been replaced. The newly-installed security gadgets were imported from Germany and installation done by 17 German experts. Fifteen of them have already left the country leaving two to monitor how the gadgets function.
A company from a neighboring West African country which was given the contract to execute the project, was paid 70 per cent of the contract sum before even work begun. All the curtains in the presidential palace are expected to be changed following the change of name to Flagstaff House. The curtains bear the inscription “Jubilee House”.