Sawla-Tuna-Kalba MP accuses Government of looting at Saglemi housing project

Deputy Ranking Member on the Works and Housing Committee of Parliament, Andrew Dari Chiwitey, is claiming that the movement had planned looting at the Saglemi Housing project.

This is because the extent of looting witnessed at the housing project could not have been masterminded by an individual or ocommunities, but rather by organized units.

“You went to the site with us and you saw what happened. That was why that day at the project site I was asking questions. I was asking those who happened to visit the project with us in 2017/ 2018 and you saw the level of work there", he noted.

“We saw the quality of work that was done, but two weeks ago when we went there you saw what happened. As if the government planned, went to the project site with trucks, with boys, for them to pick itt louve doors, louver blades, glasses, fittings…you were there with us, look, 1,506 housing units, you saw it", he said.

“All the houses were touched, not a single one was left out. How could that happen if it was not an organized something? 1,100 solid houses, every house was touched. Either the doors removed, the window was removed, the fittings were removed, the sink was removed. Everything was touched there. How?” he quizzed.

The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba lawmaker said the organized looting of the place may be linked to the government’s sudden U-turn to sell the project to a private developer. According to him, the previous Housing Minister, Atta-Akyea, had described the Saglemi project as “the best project” thus it is questionable how the project has suddenly been described as a failed project by the same government.

He gave a firm assurance that minority is resolved in their position to resist the privatization of the Saglemi project.