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B K Asamoah, the Ghanaian Chief of STX Engineering and Construction Ghana Ltd. has rubbished news reports that he has been fired by the board of the company contracted by the Mills administration to build 30,000 modern housing units for Ghana�s security agencies. News of B K Asamoah�s purported dismissal by the five-member board of STX broke this afternoon. Reports say an unsigned notice had been pasted at the Airport Residential Area office of STX Engineering and Construction Ghana, claiming the Ghanaian head of STX Ghana had been relieved of his duties. �The STX project is dead and must be buried,� Minority Spokesperson on Housing and a former Minister of State in the erstwhile NPP government, Hon Cecelia Abena Dappah, said in reaction to the reports on Accra based Joy FM. But B K Asamoah has dismissed the reports. �How on earth can I be fired?� he questioned when CitiNews Reporter Richard Sky reached him on phone for his reaction to reports that he had been booted out of office. He said: �How can anyone just see a notice claiming I have been fired and conclude that indeed I have been sacked...� adding: �So when I also get up and post a notice that I have sacked the Koreans, will that be right?� BK Asamoah has since turned his mobile phone off, after having agreed to speak to Citi Eyewitness News about reports of his alleged dismissal. It came weeks after the Korean partners in the construction giant dragged B K Asamoah to court, accusing him of falsification of corporate documents and unlawfully reconstituting the board. The Koreans also said in their suit that on May 16, 2011, G.K. Airports Company Limited, Bernard Kwabena Asamoah and J. B. Asafo-Boakye filed a special resolution claiming to surrender all the stated shares of STX Construction Company Limited to G.K. Airports Company Limited � a move the plaintiffs argue cannot stand in law because the Koreans are still part of the Company. An earlier court action initiated by the Ghanaian partners against their Korean counterparts ended recently, after the Mills administration intervened with a deal that saw the partners settle their differences out of court. The latest lawsuit, however, was filed by STX Construction Company Limited, Korea � the parent company of STX Ghana. Filed at a Fast Track High Court in Accra against six respondents � including STX Ghana Boss, Bernard Kwabena Asamoah � the suit alleges possible forgery, misrepresentation and false documentation against the Ghanaian partners. It followed what the Koreans called a �Corporate Board Resolution� purportedly passed in May this year, in which the Ghanaian partners sought to authorize Bernard Kwabena Asamoah to solely represent STX Ghana in its dealings with Plainfield Holding AG of Switzerland. The Koreans also said in their suit that on May 16, 2011, G.K. Airports Company Limited, Bernard Kwabena Asamoah and J. B. Asafo-Boakye filed a special resolution claiming to surrender all the stated shares of STX Construction Company Limited to G.K. Airports Company Limited � a move the plaintiff argue cannot stand in law because the Koreans are still part of the Company. �What this special resolution purports to do is to make the 1st respondent the majority shareholder of the company, without the consent and knowledge of the applicant,� the Plaintiff said. The suit was filed on July 26, 2011. It cited G.K. Airports Company Limited; Joseph Bardolph Asafo-Boakye, a Director of STX Ghana; George Padi; the Registrar-General as well as STX Engineering & Construction Company Ghana Limited as the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th respondents respectively. Bernard Kwabena Asamoah, who is the head of STX Engineering & Construction Company, Ghana is the 2nd respondent in the suit. The Koreans want a declaration that the so-called special Corporate Board Resolution dated May 13, 2011 and filed with the Registrar-General�s Department on May 16, 2011 seeking to surrender the shares of STX Engineering & Construction Company Ghana Limited to GK Airports is null and void and of no effect. According to the plaintiff the move offended Regulations 9 (4), 15-27 of the Company Code and S.30 (5) of Act 179.