[ 2012-05-05 ]

Private Estate Developers advised not to sacrifice quality work for profit-Minis
Accra, May 05, GNA - Mr Enoch Teye (E.T) Mensah,
Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing,
has advised private estate developers not to
sacrifice quality and integrity, in their bid to
maximize their gains.

“Some estate developers are known to have charged
their clients over housing units they never
offered, whilst others have fallen out with
clients because of unsatisfactory work,” he said.

Mr E.T. Mensah said this on Friday, when he
launched Meridian Gardens, an 85-acre site at
Klagon, Accra, which is owned by RSS Developers
Ltd, for the development of a fully-serviced,
gated community, comprising a mix of two bedroom
and three bedroom apartments.

The Minister noted that Ghana faced a “huge”
housing shortfall of one million, five-hundred
housing units.

He said the national housing policy, sought to
provide quality housing with the private sector as
the driving force and government, the
facilitator.

“The cost of building in Ghana is of great concern
to government. The government thus continues to
encourage the formation of public/private sector
partnerships, to setting up of local industries
for the manufacture of building materials, and to
influence the imposition of taxes and duties on
materials and other resources, intended for use in
building.”

He said “the Government and my Ministry, have been
active proponents in the Ghana Land Administrative
Project(LAP), for which we are receiving funding
from the World Bank”.

Mr E.T. Mensah said the LAP sought to harmonise
and simplify the various processes involved in the
acquisition of land and expressed the hope that
“on completion of LAP, the current nightmare of
perfecting land title, will be a thing of the
past”.

Mr Emmanuel Botchwey, Executive Chairman of
Regimanuel Gray Ltd, a partner in the venture,
assured the Social Security and National Insurance
Trust(SSNIT), their other partner, that they would
do their best to ensure the success of the
venture.

“I wish to assure our partners SSNIT, and all
those for whom Meridian Gardens will become a
home, that Regimanuel Gray will deliver a product
which will reflect honour on our efforts,” he
said.

Dr Frank Odoom, Director General of SSNIT, said
RSS needed the support of stake-holders such as
financial institutions, land owners among others,
for a secure and successful venture.

“I have no doubt that we will be invited back to
witness other joyous occasions in the RSS
house-hold, such as the completion of the various
phases of Meridian Gardens apartments, he said.

Source - GNA

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