The government has taken steps to enlist private partners for the completion of the Saglemi Affordable Housing Project.
Initiated in 2012 during the tenure of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, the Saglemi housing project aimed to construct 5000 housing units.
However, the project has been embroiled in controversy due to allegations of fund misappropriation, leading to its halt.
During an inspection of the project site, Works and Housing Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah disclosed plans to secure a private partner within five weeks.
“Cabinet some months ago approved a pathway to progress work on this project and bring it to a conclusion so that the public can utilise it. There has been a technical working group that has been assigned to work on the project and I have had a series of meetings with the group, so we are here to have a look at the progress of work and what is outstanding.
“This morning, I gave instructions to the technical working group that within the next five weeks, it should go ahead with an international expression of interest that is designed to attract private developers who can come in and complete this project for us so that we can put it to use.”
“The project, based on the last estimates from the Ghana Institute of Surveyors, requires over $100 million to complete and this is money that within the current fiscal constraints, we don’t have so we have to explore other ways of finding the money to complete it,” the Works and Housing Minister added.
Source: Citinews