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GA W: 25, 000 affordable housing units in the offing at Amasaman

Some 25,000 housing units are to be constructed at Amasaman in the Ga West Municipality as part of the affordable housing units to help reduce the housing deficit in the country.

Date Created : 4/29/2019 10:17:04 AM : Story Author : Dominic Shirimori/Ghanadistricts.com

The Municipal Chief Executive for the area, Clement Wilkinson in an exclusive interview with Ghanadistricts.com said the president would be cutting sod for the official commencement of the project very soon.

He said a successful completion of the project would go a long way to assist public sector workers in particular as well as the general public to easily access accommodation.

This follows a proposal the Ga West Assembly tabled before government which was accepted and approved.

He also mentioned that the area would also play host to an industrial park which would also be established soon to boost economic activities in the area.

On government’s quest to making Accra the cleanest city, the MCE suggested that though the vision is possible, the surest way is to create a new city as part of Accra and move all government machinery to the new city. This new city would be well planned, demarcated, and well managed to prevent the current situation Accra is bedeviled with.

The new city, he noted would become the administrative capital, while the current Accra remains the commercial city. By this arrangement visitors would more likely patronize the administrative capital and would always have positive mindset about the country.

According to him, some countries in the world have practiced this and achieved positive results including South Africa where Pretoria is the administrative capital and Johannesburg remains a commercial city. America practiced same with Washington, Maryland and Virginia.

Mr Clement Wilkinson who have already expressed the readiness of Ga West to host such new city said they have about 31, 000 acres of land readily available to release to government should it intend pursuing that agenda.

The MCE also disclosed that it would be very difficult to achieve the cleanest city concepts in some traditional areas in the capital, and that those areas would have to remain historical sites while efforts are made to improve situations in those areas.

He noted examples of such areas in Johannesburg are referred to as Down Town, and come with some associated problems.

He suggested, the proposed cathedral should have been sited in the Amasaman enclave because the there is a vast land with nice landscape that would befit such edifice.