Parliament’s Committee on Works and Housing has visited the Saglemi Housing project site following a fire outbreak on December 24, 2024.
The fire whose cause is under investigation destroyed two containers serving as storage facilities.
During the visit on December 31, Committee Chairman Vincent Oppong Asamoah expressed concerns about the current state of the project.
“We decided to come to the site itself so that we can also do some inspection to know if there are additional defects on the structure.
“We’ve also heard that there is a new contractor, a new investor that the government has procured to complete this structure, even though we don’t know the terms of the contract. But it is good we are here, at least to be abreast of the situation on the ground at the moment,” he said.
Mr Asamoah also shared his frustration over abandoned building materials left at the mercy of the weather.
The Dormaa West MP stressed that all those materials were purchased with a significant amount of money, and needed to be protected.
“Those materials have been here for over ten years, and leaving them to the vagaries of the weather, you can imagine what has happened to them. The question we keep on asking ourselves is, if we had used our own money, our pocket money to procure these, would they allow it to go to waste the way we have done it? You know we have spent over 200 million dollars to procure all these items,” he added.
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