The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has expressed his displeasure at the delay of the Saglemi housing project as it could house the displaced persons of the Akosombo dam spillage.
The Saglemi Housing Project is a public housing project located in Prampram in the Ningo Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region. The project which started in 2012, was to be done in four phases for a 5, 000 residential unit building.
According to a Joy News online publication on 3rd August 2021, the first phase of the Saglemi housing project which is supposed to see a completion of over 1,500 flats is 90 per cent completed, yet the project site is not commercially viable and habitable.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the North Tongu MP emphasized the humane living conditions of people affected by the dam spillage while stating the current health and education issues of the people.
He indicated saying “The Ghana Medical Association has been there. They put out a report that already people are presenting with typhoid, they are presenting with cholera, they are presenting with respiratory diseases, with skin infections.”
He added that a warning from Ghana Education Service also suggests the only secondary school in Mepe may be closed down as parents are withdrawing their wards from the school.
Okudzeto Ablakwa therefore admonished parliament to use the contingency to support the completion of the Saglemi housing project in order to house affected persons of the spillage.
He emphasized that “the house has approved a contingency vote of 533,000,000 cedis further questioning Why can’t we use the contingency vote to immediately resettle these people who are stranded in classrooms?
A suggestion has been made that looking at the very devastating conditions under which these displaced persons are living, it is less than 40 kilometres from the Saglermi housing project which is almost complete, so more than 95% complete. We can use the contingency vote, Mr. Speaker, to urgently complete the Saglemi housing project and relocate these people,” he continued.
Mr. Ablakwa also acknowledged the efforts made by individuals including corporate institutions while requesting immediate interventions to settle these people.
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Source: Flora Tang/ATLFMNEWS
