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General News on Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-04-17
Affordable Houses in Saglemi
The parliamentary minority has expressed outrage at about 1,412 affordable housing units which, according to the government, have been in shambles since the Akufo-Addo government took office in January 2017.
At a press conference organized by minority members of the restricted parliamentary committee on public works and housing, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, a member of the ranking, asked why so many houses would be left to rot then that the housing deficit was almost two. million.
Bedzrah said Friday, October 31, 2012, that Parliament approved $ 200 million for the construction of affordable homes in Saglemi, near Tsopoli, Ningo Prampram district, Greater Accra region. .
The contract, he said, was a turnkey project clbadified in Engineering, Supply and Construction (EPC), which, he explained, entrusted the company with a contract. contractor "responsibility for design, procurement and construction", adding that "after the completion of the project, it will be handed over to the Ministry of Water Resources, Public Works and Housing".
The project is undertaken by MM. Construtora OAS Limited as a contractor, the client being the Department of Public Works and Housing. Ridge Management Solution, RSM Ghana Limited, acts as a consultant for the project.
The contract, according to the minority, was awarded on February 27, 2014 and was originally scheduled to end on March 1, 2016.
A total of 5,000 dwellings were to be delivered at the end of the contract.
"The initial number of homes to be delivered under Phase I is expected to be 1,412," Bedzrah said.
The legislator told reporters that the Public Works and Housing Restricted Committee had visited the site on Thursday, April 11, 2019, together with the Minister of Public Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea; and his substitute, Mrs. Barbara Aisha Ayisi; and observed that the necessary social infrastructure and facilities at the site, such as an electricity distribution board, street lights, open spaces, paved roads and covered drains, had all been provided.
He said: "Phase I of the project, which includes 1,412 units consisting of two or three rooms and 116 normal urban dwellings, is almost completed, one of which is intended for a police station. 636 out of 1,024 units were also completed for occupancy ".
The other 388, he said, were 70 percent complete.
At the same time, the sector minister explained Tuesday night to Valentina Ofori-Afriyie, in the Clbad91.3FM newscast 505, that his office is waiting for the Attorney General's opinion on how to deal with the project, some anomalies having been detected in the contract. .
Mr. Atta Akyea asked why only more than 600 units had been completed while about 90% of payments had been paid to the contractor.
According to him, the government plans to terminate the contract, adding that Gloria Akuffo, the Auditor General, had badured her that her office had almost finished browsing the voluminous contractual documents she had studied and that she would soon give an opinion on the way forward. .
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