Broadcaster Blessed Godsbrain Smart is asking President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to tell Ghanaians the relationship between him and the private developer they are selling the Saglemi Housing project to.
Captain Smart wants to find out from the President if the buyer of the housing unit is his brother in-law or a brother of his former girlfriend.
This comes after the Minister of Works and Housing, Francis Asenso Boakye announced Sunday during a ‘meet the press’ session at the Ministry of Information Sunday, November 13, 2022, disclosed that government was not going to make commitment to the project anymore.
Due to this, “we’re allowing for a private sector developer to take up the initiative to build and sell the housing units”, he indicated.
He noted, “a committee will be commissioned to guide the process and ensure transparency in the bidding process”.
The project, started in 2012 by the erstwhile Mahama administration has 5,000 housing units.
According to Asenso Boakye, 1,500 units of the project are inhabitable currently, needing an amount of $46 million to provide water, electricity and storm drains.
“Government doesn’t intend to expend more on the completion of the project. Government has decided to sell the project” he stated.
The High Court has said they are looking into some embezzlement issues related to the project and anyone found culpable would be convicted.
Collins Dauda, a former Works and Housing minister under the erstwhile Mahama administration is standing trial for causing financial loss to the State in relation to the project.
He is facing 52 counts of criminal charges with four others for internationally misapplying public property, dishonestly causing loss to public property and willfully causing financial loss to the State.
Alhaji Collins Dauda and his successor Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah, have been accused of spending over $196 million on the Saglemi housing project when investigations revealed that the cost of works executed on the site, including consultancy services, was about $64,982,900.77.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
