Mr Alex Emmanuel Nti a political analyst and a financial engineer has stated that, Ghana needs a structured development plan to guide politicians in building the country.
He said this on Plan B FM when interacting with Ohene Kinnah on ‘Ebaanosen’ in reaction to the call from organized labor asking the government to give the Saglemi affordable housing to workers instead of privatizing it.
Mr. Nti said if the country want to solve the problem of politicians abandoning projects started by their predecessors to start new projects we need to get a well structured development plan and a law that will strictly bind every government to finish or continue what their predecessors started to the benefit of the nation as a whole.
Meanwhile, the Unionised public workers have appealed to the government to allocate the ‘white elephant’ Saglemi houses to them rather than letting it go to waste as is the case currently.
At this year’s May Day celebration at the Independence Square in the Greater Accra Region, the Regional Secretary to the Council of Labour, Ms. Freda Frimpong, pleaded: “Hon Minister, please do whatever you can to make the Saglemi housing project useful for Ghanaians,” adding: “We cannot allow that project to go to waste when so many workers who have contributed to Ghana’s development cannot have places to lay their heads.”
In November 2022, the minority caucus in parliament said the next government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2025 will take back the project from any private investor who acquires it.
It insists the project must remain a government one so the houses could be sold at affordable rates to public workers – even MPs.
“We are stating our position clear that we wouldn’t want any private developer to come in at all,” the ranking member of the select committee on works and housing, Mr. Vincent Oppong Asamoah, told journalists on Tuesday, 22 November 2022, during a tour of the site by the minority members of the committee.
It “In 2025, we are very optimistic that the NDC will form the next government, so, any private developer that will partner with the government to complete this project; the project will be taken away from him because it should remain affordable and the mortgage system; should go to the workers of Ghana,” he warned.
He said: “I know the military and other government agencies, even parliament, I tell you, members of parliament will be very very happy to live around this place,” noting: “The environment is so serene.”
“So, we came around for you to know that this government has neglected it and caused so much financial loss to the state [and] the people of Ghana because you have taken shots of what has happened here [removal of doors, burglar proofs, and cables]; as to whether it was even organized by the government so that while we see the level of deterioration, that will give them the energy and confidence to tell Ghanaians that the project has failed so that they can sell it to themselves, but, at least, we have seen it; there’s still a way out,” he noted.
The visit revealed that security doors, burglar proofs, power, and phone cables have been “stolen” from the housing units.
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