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The Executive Secretary of the Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB), Kwadwo Twum-Boafo has jumped to the defense of the CHRAJ boss, Vivian Lauretta Lamptey in the recent controversy regarding her accommodation. According to the head of the Free Zones Board, the $4,500 rent allowance she is alleged to have paid for a house at the AU village is not �strange�. �Paying $4,500 a month at AU Village, is it strange? People are renting apartment at Cantonments and paying 5000, is it strange?" Twum-Boafo fumed on Radio Gold on Saturday. Lamptey is embroiled in a controversy over her official residence. She is reported to have, within 37 months � from July 2011 when she was appointed to July 2014 when her rent at the AU Village expired � spent US$203,500 on rent and utilities, at the expense of the State. She is currently lodging at a hotel and paying the Cedi equivalent of $456.25 per day, in the interim, as her official residence, which was inhabited by her predecessor, Emile Short, undergoes renovation at a cost of GH�182,000. There are calls for her to resign from office over the development . But Twum-Boafo believes the matter is being blown out of proportion. �When we are doing some of these things, let us be very careful. Today the shoe is on one person, tomorrow it�s on the other. Let us not moralise and demonise people,� he stated.