{"id":1256849,"date":"2022-11-23T18:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/23\/dafeamekpor-issues-buyer-beware-alert-over-saglemi-sale\/"},"modified":"2022-11-23T18:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:21:54","slug":"dafeamekpor-issues-buyer-beware-alert-over-saglemi-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/23\/dafeamekpor-issues-buyer-beware-alert-over-saglemi-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Dafeamekpor issues \u2018buyer beware\u2019 alert over Saglemi sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1669227714_783_Saglemi-Housing-Project.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson Nelson-Dafeamekpor has issued a warning to prospective buyers of the state-owned Saglemi Housing Project.<\/p>\n<p>He says it is unconstitutional for government to consider selling the project to private investors, since Parliament approved its financing with the notion that it was to create cheap housing for Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParliament approved the loan for purposes of building an affordable housing for the people. We didn\u2019t approve a loan to build housing estates and sell to private developers.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kPeQ7a4rEY\"><p>We need to investigate the looting at Saglemi \u2013 Vincent Asamoah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u201cWe need to investigate the looting at Saglemi \u2013 Vincent Asamoah\u201d \u2014 MyJoyOnline.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/we-need-to-investigate-the-looting-at-saglemi-asamoah\/embed\/#?secret=qQp8UG8kz3#?secret=kPeQ7a4rEY\" data-secret=\"kPeQ7a4rEY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr Dafeamekpor argued that because the project\u2019s objective had changed since being approved by the legislature, government\u2019s new consideration regarding the project must be presented to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the original purpose of the project has changed, they must come back to parliament. And the transaction must be subject to parliament\u2019s approval.\u201d<br \/>\u201cBut any private developer who is thinking of acquiring Saglemi, must think twice,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He further asserted that should his party come to power, his threat would be executed, adding that the NDC will take over the project, since the contractual agreement was to build affordable housing for the citizens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QMqiP9qesF\"><p>Saglemi Housing Project can be salvaged \u2013 Ebo Bonful<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u201cSaglemi Housing Project can be salvaged \u2013 Ebo Bonful\u201d \u2014 MyJoyOnline.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/saglemi-housing-project-can-be-salvaged-ebo-bonful\/embed\/#?secret=R2iIIQDbuu#?secret=QMqiP9qesF\" data-secret=\"QMqiP9qesF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He debunked the possibility of this action to incur a judgment debt, saying \u201cif Saglemi is a subject of criminal prosecution, why must you sell something that is a subject of criminal prosecution?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, November 13, the Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso Boakye announced that government was considering selling the Saglemi Housing Project to a private firm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"IfRh7LvBIr\"><p>Minority warns government to discard plans to sell Saglemi Housing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u201cMinority warns government to discard plans to sell Saglemi Housing\u201d \u2014 MyJoyOnline.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/minority-warns-government-to-discard-plans-to-sell-saglemi-housing\/embed\/#?secret=sXveXGXsDQ#?secret=IfRh7LvBIr\" data-secret=\"IfRh7LvBIr\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the administration could not disregard public calls for the project to be finished.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the government actively included Cabinet, the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the Office of the Attorney General, and the Ministry of Justice.<br \/>Mr Boakye informed the citizens that earnings from the sale will go to the state and be put toward new initiatives for affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson Nelson-Dafeamekpor has issued a warning to prospective buyers of the state-owned Saglemi Housing Project. He says it is unconstitutional for government to consider selling the project to private investors, since Parliament approved its financing with the notion that it was to create cheap housing for Ghanaians. \u201cParliament approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1256851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256849","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\/1256849","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=1256849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}