SSNIT TAKES OVER ASOKORE MAMPONG AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT

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Some of the uncompleted Affordable Houses

Government on Thursday formally handed over to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, SSNIT, the affordable housing project at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti region for completion. 

The housing units, which are scheduled for completion between six months and 18 months, depending on their respective state now, is in line with government’s efforts to reduce the one point-seven million housing deficit the country is currently facing. 

Dr. Agyemang-Mensah(in suit) handing over 







Handing over the project, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah gave squatters who have taken over the uncompleted houses a month’s ultimatum to vacate the premises to pave the way for the actual project to resume unimpeded. 

In 2006, the erstwhile NPP government under the Presidency of John Agyekum Kuffuor began the Affordable Housing project not only in the Ashanti region, but other areas in the country. 

The Asokore Mampong project consists of 92 storey blocks made up of one as well as two-bedroom flats. 




In total, about one thousand, 200 housing apartments will be available for sale to interested public servants upon completion of the project.

 Its completion will also see the provision of 52 stores, a police Station, utility services as well as a road network that will connect the site to other parts of the Asokore Mampong Municipality. 

A majority of the 80 building contractors who were engaged originally are still going to continue with the construction just that SSNIT says it will enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with them with the view to ensuring value for money.

 Dr. Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah repeated that Ghana requires an annual construction of about "100 thousand housing units before it can effectively deal with the one-point-seven million housing unit deficits". 

The Minister explained that government settled on SSNIT to complete the project in view of the Trust’s enviable track record in the housing industry. 

Dr. Agyemang-Mensah warned that any lackadaisical attitude from the old contractors that could impede the completion of the project within the scheduled time will not be tolerated. 

The Director-General of SSNIT, Lawyer Ernest Thompson assured that the Trust will apply "the same technology and technique being used to complete the Borteyman Affordable Housing to ensure that the set timeline is met".  

Lawyer Thompson noted that the project will create more jobs, reduce abject poverty, increase household incomes as well as ensure social security. 

SSNIT, he said, is therefore committed to completing the project.



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