[ 2012-05-05 ]

Govt, Guma Group of SA to roll out 500 housing units for police personnel
Accra, May 05, GNA - The Government of Ghana and
the Guma Group of South African on Friday signed a
Memorandum of Understanding to roll out housing
units for the security agencies.

The project which takes off in October would begin
with the construction of 500 housing units for
police personnel.

The arrival of the Guma Group among other bidders
provides a bridge-gap for the botched STX housing
project.

Guma would finance the project and later transfer
it to the Ghana Government.

The documentation for the project was concluded
and appended by Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, Minister for
Water Resources, Works and Housing, and Alhaji
Ziblim Yakubu, Acting Chief Director of the
Ministry for the Ghanaian side, whiles Marie
Pillay, Executive Director of the Guma Group, Mr
Mandla Gama, Director of Guma Water and Mr Lyndon
Khan of Guma Properties signed for the company.

The signing ceremony performed in the presence of
Vice President John Dramani Mahama, in Accra.

The signing of this Agreement stemmed out
discussions between Ghana's President John Atta
Mills visit last year to South Africa during which
the two nations affirmed the commitment to enhance
co-operation with each other with investment in
housing and water resources among others.

President Mills visit was followed by the Vice
Presidents of both countries for further work on
the areas of co-operation.

Vice President Mahama reiterated that Government's
desire to provide affordable housing, observing
that about 54 percent of Ghanaians lived in rented
premises, hence the invitation for investment in
housing to ease pressure.

He said about 35 per cent of Ghanaians do not have
access to good drinking water and expressed the
conviction that the water project in the memoranda
would commence soon to reduce the emergence of
water borne diseases in the society.

Source - GNA

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