{"id":1258540,"date":"2022-11-26T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/26\/privatising-saglemi-project-is-the-best-option-considering-times-we-are-in-john-kumah\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T10:58:02","slug":"privatising-saglemi-project-is-the-best-option-considering-times-we-are-in-john-kumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/26\/privatising-saglemi-project-is-the-best-option-considering-times-we-are-in-john-kumah\/","title":{"rendered":"Privatising Saglemi Project is the best option considering times we are in – John Kumah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Deputy Minister of Finance has backed government\u2019s decision to sell the controversial Saglemi Housing project to a private developer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr John Kumah said the decision is the best in the scheme of things currently.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to him, per the amount spent on the project already, the houses is no longer affordable.<\/p>\n

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Saglemi Housing Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking on the JoyNews\u2019 Newsfile on Saturday, the Ejisu MP said the government will be transparent in choosing the said developers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project is no longer affordable per the arrangement that has happened to it because if you divide $200 million 10,000, you are going to get it at $10,000 and they reviewed it to 1,500 which makes it up $40,000 to $50,000 per unit. So how affordable can that be?<\/p>\n

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Saglemi Housing Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSo in the present circumstances, the best option is to bring the private sector,\u201d he insisted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The facility birthed by the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, was meant to be a 5,000-residential unit facility to ease the accommodation deficit in the country.<\/p>\n

It sits on a 300-acre land with one to three-bedroom flats for low-income earners. But since the NDC left office in 2017, the project has been mired in controversy with two former government officials being prosecuted.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Works and Housing Minister, Francis Asenso Boakye announced plans to privatise the project.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Minority in Parliament has cautioned the government to discard the plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Minority Spokesperson for Works and Housing, Vincent Oppong Asamoah said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to him, the project is viable therefore \u201cgovernment should be compelled to look for funds to complete the project instead of privatisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, he said should be the task of Parliament\u2019s Works and Housing Committee.<\/p>\n

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A Deputy Minister of Finance has backed government\u2019s decision to sell the controversial Saglemi Housing project to a private developer.\u00a0 Dr John Kumah said the decision is the best in the scheme of things currently.\u00a0 According to him, per the amount spent on the project already, the houses is no longer affordable. Saglemi Housing Project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258540","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\/1258540","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=1258540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}