{"id":1249840,"date":"2022-11-13T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/13\/govt-to-sell-saglemi-housing-project-to-private-developer\/"},"modified":"2022-11-13T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T15:16:11","slug":"govt-to-sell-saglemi-housing-project-to-private-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/13\/govt-to-sell-saglemi-housing-project-to-private-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t to sell Saglemi housing project to private developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Government has decided to wash its hands off the Saglemi housing project.<\/p>\n<p>This is to allow a private developer to refurbish the housing units and sell to potential owners, according to the Ministry of Works and Housing.<\/p>\n<p>Sector Minister, Francis Asenso Boakye revealed this at a meet the press session in Accra on Sunday, November 13, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He said government is exhausted and handicapped and can\u2019t make further commitment to the Saglemi project.<\/p>\n<p>On this basis, \u201cwe\u2019re allowing for a private sector developer to take up the initiative to build and sell the housing units\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister asserted that, \u201ca committee will be commissioned to guide the process and ensure transparency in the bidding process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Saglemi housing project was started in 2012 under the NDC government to build 5000 housing units.<\/p>\n<p>This did not materialize due to alleged misappropriation of funds.<\/p>\n<p>The minister noted that, the 1500 units built are currently inhabitable and an amount of about USD46 million is needed to provide water, electricity and storm drains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment doesn\u2019t intend to expend more on the completion of the project. Government has decided to sell the project\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the high court is looking into the issues of embezzlement and anyone found culpable for crime will be convicted.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what the terms and conditions will be between the government and the private developer and what the state stands to gain.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Y54DrWsOSOg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saglemi housing project: Government attributes poor state to corruption by politicians\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y54DrWsOSOg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has decided to wash its hands off the Saglemi housing project. This is to allow a private developer to refurbish the housing units and sell to potential owners, according to the Ministry of Works and Housing. Sector Minister, Francis Asenso Boakye revealed this at a meet the press session in Accra on Sunday, November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}