Minority caucus on works and housing petitions government.

The Minority Caucus on Works and Housing in parliament has petitioned the Minister of Works and Housing on behalf of some of the owners of houses destroyed by Pentrexx Ghana limited for compensation to be paid them. In a statement signed by the Minority spokesman Mr. Kwamena Bartels, the minority stated that it wants compensation to be paid to owners of 49 houses destroyed by the executing company Pentrexx Ghana Limited. According to the Caucus, inspite of the fact that their houses have been destroyed no compensation has been paid them. The Minority group advocated the paying of at least an amount of 50 million cedis each for a storey building and 20 million cedis for a single storey building to the owners whose houses have been destroyed. This, they argued could be paid out of the over 3 billion cedis that Pentrexx is expected to refund to the government. In another development the NPP caucus on Works and Housing has asked the Ministry of Works and housing to seriously consider as a matter of national urgency the construction of groynes at Adjido in the Keta area of the Volta region to save the strip of land measuring about 50 feet from being eroded by the sea. The Caucus is of the view that the cost of such a project can be paid out of the money that Pentrexx and Bascom, both contractors on the Keta Sea Defence Project have to refund to the Ministry. According to the Caucus, the Hydrology division of the Ministry of Works and housing can be awarded the contract for this job and the large amounts of gabions at Keta can be used for this. They put the estimated cost for the project at five hundred million cedis.