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Tema Development Company (TDC) Limited Chief Operating Officer Samuel Asante has revealed that invader activities at TDC development sites are hampering the construction of more housing units.
Mr Asante cited the Ocean Park development site at Community Five, where invaders are making it difficult to start construction with pockets of resistance against personnel from the 48 Engineers Regiment who have been tasked with demarcating the site and start the fence wall.
He said this during a working visit by Mr. Joseph Cudjoe, Minister of Public Enterprises, to inspect some large housing projects that TDC is undertaking in some communities in the Tema enclave.
Mr Asante therefore appealed to the appropriate stakeholders to help convince the invaders of the need for TDC to provide housing for Ghanaians. “So, because they were temporarily occupying the premises, the time has come for them to be relocated.”
He said TDC intended to build 18 four-story apartment buildings, consisting of two-bedroom apartments in Ocean Park, which they would bring to market, and use some of them to move some households from other locations.
He said TDC faced a similar challenge of encroaching on the Kaizer Face One project. “We were able to demolish some houses but others are standing because the occupants had a rental contract with TDC.
“We convince them to move to affordable housing in Kpone, but they say it’s too far; we have offered adequate monetary compensation on the basis of an appropriate valuation, but some refuse to go ”.
Mr Asante said the dialogue was ongoing but if it failed the company might have no choice but to go to court; “Because the area has been declared a disaster zone, the buildings are worn out, the iron bars stick out and they are not supposed to live there.”
Mr. Cudjoe, Minister of Public Enterprise, praised TDC’s enormous role in promoting Ghana’s economy through housing development to reduce the housing deficit.
He said that TDC would not only be able to increase the housing stock and bring the necessary income to the country, but would also help solve the unemployment situation in Ghana by creating many jobs with the development of their many projects. housing.
Mr Cudjoe said: “What we are seeing is an opportunity to develop the TDC to generate jobs, we are talking about unemployment, but here we have a state enterprise with expansion capacity, capacity to do more if the financial and technical constraints are resolved ”.
The minister said that the affordable housing market exists in Ghana, but the challenge is how to get the necessary financing so that TDC can produce the houses at affordable prices for buyers.
As part of the visit, the Minister and his entourage visited the Kpone Affordable Housing Site, Community 22 NHMF Estates, Kaizer Apartments, Community Four, Community Three TDC Apartments and Ocean Park.
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