General News of Friday, 31 May 2019Source: Graphic.com.gh‘Parliament approved $200m loan for 5,000 units’ Saglemi Housing ProjectSamuel Atta AkyeaParliament documents intercepted by the Daily Graphic indicate that the House did, indeed, approve a $200 million loan agreement for the construction of 5,000 housing units for the Saglemi Housing project in Accra on October 31, 2012. The documents have challenged the claim by officials of the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government that the $200 million loan facility was only for the first phase of the project, which involved the construction of 1,502 housing units. The project will be executed by Construtora OAS Limited, under the supervision of the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing," it adds. You go to secure $200 million to put up 5,000 affordable housing units at Saglemi and people want to give some kind of propaganda twist to it. Project termsMr Atta Akyea said the country's laws did not permit a minister or anybody to change any law passed by Parliament.

Source: GhanaWeb May 31, 2019 07:41 UTC