{"id":1257586,"date":"2022-11-24T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T18:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/minority-mp-takes-on-govt-over-saglemi-housing-project\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T18:48:51","slug":"minority-mp-takes-on-govt-over-saglemi-housing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/24\/minority-mp-takes-on-govt-over-saglemi-housing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority MP takes on govt over Saglemi Housing Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/download-Copy-696x348.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"saglemi\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Member of Parliament for the people of Dormaa West Constituency and Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Works and Housing Committee has said the government\u2019s decision to sell the Saglemi Housing project to a private developer is bad.<\/p>\n<p>To Vincent Oppong Asamoah, the NPP government can never be transparent and so there was no way they could sell the project to a private developer.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why the government in taking loans to undertake specific projects has failed to consider the Saglemi Housing project and have it fixed instead of selling it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is taking loans to do specific projects and so they should look for money and complete the project. We know government has money and can use it to fix it. They are only throwing dust into our eyes saying they are going to sell the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are deliberately destroying it and then making people think that they are making it look like they are selling it, but trust me; this government will own everything secretly. They can never be transparent,\u201d he told Adom FM\u2019s morning show <strong>Dwaso Nsem <\/strong>Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Saglemi Housing Project has been at the centre of controversy since the ruling government discovered that there were missing key contract documents and those available had various inconsistencies.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest development, the government has decided to sell the Housing project to a private developer.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, says the decision was taken after assessment and the necessary consultations.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Oppong Asamoah has called for an independent inquiry into the raiding of the Saglemi Housing Project by unknown persons.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it is unheard of that the site, which is supposedly under the care of the police, could have been looted so thoroughly without the police arresting any culprit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minority warns govt to discard plans to sell Saglemi Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Govt to sell Saglemi Housing Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saglemi Housing case: State prosecutors buy time to file \u201coutstanding documents\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ts6kOBUzuT4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Communal V!olence: Nchumuru chiefs call for peaceful co-existence - Adom TV News (23-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ts6kOBUzuT4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for the people of Dormaa West Constituency and Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Works and Housing Committee has said the government\u2019s decision to sell the Saglemi Housing project to a private developer is bad. To Vincent Oppong Asamoah, the NPP government can never be transparent and so there was no way they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1159285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257586","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\/1257586","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=1257586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}