Government To Retrieve 49 Housing Units In Kumasi

The government has vowed to retrieve 49 housing units from some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who were purported to have bought houses during former President Kufuor’s regime.

The circumstances under which the acquisition was made are said to be suspicious.

Information gathered by the Times revealed that, the beneficiaries have not paid for the building they have allegedly bought in their names.

Each of them was supposed to pay an estimated amount of 46,200 dollars for a two-bedroom house and 22,000 dollars for a non-bedroom house but there is no indication that they have paid for them.

Speaking at a news conference in Accra on Friday, the Minister of Water Resources Works and Housing, Mr. E.T. Mensah, said the government would soon put an injunction on the houses to ensure that they were returned to the state.

Mr. E.T. Mensah noted that some of the uncompleted affordable houses were even occupied by some NPP supporters and friends who had not paid anything to government.

He said the government would soon place an injunction on those structures in order to retrieve monies owed to the government adding “they will even pay for occupying it for years”.