Stalled Pokuase-Mayera affordable housing at risk

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The committee’s sojourn provided members with first-hand look astatine the project’s status

The Parliamentary Select Committee connected Works and Housing has urged the authorities to expedite the completion of the Affordable Housing Project astatine Pokuase-Mayera successful Accra.

During a moving sojourn to the task tract connected Monday, May 5, 2025, the Committee Chairman, Vincent Oppong Asamoah, underscored the request for swift enactment by the government.

The committee’s sojourn provided members with a first-hand look astatine the project’s presumption and imaginable completion strategies.

“If we don’t enactment now, encroachment volition worsen, putting infrastructure and quality lives astatine risk,” helium warned.

According to him, it was important for the Ministry of Finance to enactment with a consciousness of urgency by releasing the indispensable funds to alteration the completion of the project.

He said the lodging project, which was scheduled to beryllium completed successful 2024, remained acold from decorativeness owed to delayed disbursement of funds.

“So for me, if you look astatine the roadworthy infrastructure, the contractor is saying that helium wasn’t adjacent paid mobilisation… and we request to urgently bash something. These are outstanding issues that the authorities would person to woody with,” Mr. Oppong Asamoah stated.

He expressed heavy interest implicit the hold successful the completion of what helium described arsenic a cardinal authorities lodging project, citing deficiency of timely backing arsenic the superior setback.

“Per the workplan, we were expected to person completed this successful 2024; but you travel around, and there’s nary structure. We’re besides being interrupted by encroachers, section people, onshore guards. We’re each not satisfied with what has happened and you tin spot that it’s the authorities that’s reneging connected its portion of the contract,” helium lamented.

He likened the stalled lodging task to that of Saglemi, saying: “These are captious lodging interventions and the deficiency of fiscal enactment is jeopardising their success”.

The concern was further analyzable by encroachers and onshore guards, whose activities were hindering the project, with immoderate onshore guards adjacent attempting to disrupt the visit.

Against this backdrop, Oppong Asamoah underscored the urgency of addressing besides these information risks, informing that further delays would lone embolden amerciable concern and endanger the information of workers.

“Looking astatine the determination of this project, I deliberation it’s a precise premier country of Accra and I judge a batch of radical volition beryllium arrogant to unrecorded successful this place. Unfortunately, encroachers and onshore guards person go a nuisance to the project. So, I judge the authorities would person to travel successful and instrumentality the task seriously,” helium noted.

He further indicated that it was paramount for the task to beryllium completed connected clip earlier radical determination successful to encroach connected the land.

“It’s bully that we’ve travel here, and we’ll travel it up. At least, we’ll instrumentality it up with the Minister of Finance truthful we tin look for resources to guarantee that this is implemented to the fullest. Once the task is nether the Ministry of Works and Housing, the curate would person to instrumentality it up,” helium indicated.

Despite the challenges, helium remained optimistic astir the aboriginal of the project, adding: “Once completed, this volition beryllium a beauteous residential community”.

“In fact, I’d beryllium blessed to unrecorded present myself. The country is peaceful, well-located and has large imaginable for families looking for a decent spot to telephone home,” helium expressed.

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