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Former Member of the Committee for Joint Action, Kwasi Adu, says government has to look outside the prime areas of Accra if it intends on building affordable housing for government workers.<\/strong><\/p>\nAccording to him, trying to put up such housing facilities for workers within the main parts of Accra will be very difficult.<\/p>\n
He was referring to the government\u2019s plan to redevelop Cantonments to provide space for new housing facilities for public and civil service workers, including judges and other key government officials.<\/p>\n
However, Kwasi Adu says there is no more space in Cantonments for the planned development.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is going to be very difficult to provide them in and around the main parts of Accra or near cantonments, Roman Ridge, because as lawyer Gyan is saying, they\u2019re gone. They\u2019ve already been sold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Successive governments have attempted to redevelop Cantonments and other prime areas in the capital however; the process has always been shrouded in secrecy and opacity leading to accusations of land grabbing and the sale of prime estate to private developers who put up luxury apartments.<\/p>\n
The situation has led to the dislodgement of many government workers who were initially housed in those areas.<\/p>\n
According to Kwasi Adu, now that the houses of regular government officials have been given away to private developers, top government officials are next to be victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow the ones that are left that they\u2019re selling are the very top people\u2019s ones. Tomorrow you\u2019ll hear that the CDS bungalow or land there is being sold, the next day it\u2019s about the Speaker\u2019s bungalow and things like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve finished the lower ones so there\u2019s nothing there. When we\u2019re talking about providing affordable housing we may think of other places where we can think of building affordable housing outside of these places because it\u2019s gone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He has instead called for the construction of integrated communities on the outskirts of Accra to house government officials as well as address the housing needs of other Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if the government is going to think about affordable housing for people those areas around Roman Ridge, Ring Road estates and things like that are almost all gone. So they must think of other areas where there are small plots and build mass housing for people in those places so that public servants will be able to live there and even for private individuals who may want to rent some of them would be able to rent some of them and then provide the necessary connections with transportation, public transport and other things. It has to be really integrated. What is happening is that there is no integrated plan for anything and they just sell them to themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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