It Cost The Government Over 200 Million Dollars Tax Payers Money But It’s Going Waste Because Of You

Pressure group widely known as Fix The Country movement has served the president and his ruling class with a piece of information hitting on their displeasure against the action of the Ghana police service.

Find communique below:

Earlier today, the Ghana Police Service unlawfully interrupted the resettlement of over 250 homeless citizens including women and children who have been mobilized by [Fix The Country] to repossess the abandoned and now rapidly deteriorating Saglemi Housing Project. The citizens were interrupted while they were in the middle of a massive clean-up exercise to make the premises habitable. The interruption which took place over a four-hour period after some political party activists from one of the homeless communities tipped off the Ghana Police Service about the presence of the group at Saglemi.

While the unlawful action by the Ghana Police Service was peaceful and did not lead to any casualties, [Fix The Country] considers their actions as contravening Article 41 of the 1992 Constitution, which places a burden on the citizens of this Country to protect and preserve public property and expose and combat misuse and waste of public funds and property. 

As many of you may be aware, the Saglemi facility which was meant to be a 5000-residential unit facility to ease the accommodation deficit in the country, was left abandoned due to corruption and reckless partisan politics. 

Over the past 4 months, as part of [Fix The Country’s] activism towards tackling homelessness and the continuous practice of abandoned government practice, our activists, have been undertaking reconnaissance activities at Saglemi. The purpose of which was to assess the state of the state of over 1500 flats which were built as part of the Saglemi Housing Project. 

Our activists have taken over a 1000-pictures and have recorded several hours of video footage over the four-month period in preparation for our resettlement of homeless Ghanaians in various abandoned public properties. The pictures and videos show the deplorable state in which a project which cost the government over 200 million dollars was left abandoned and now in a serious state of deterioration.

During the four-month period, our activists have mapped out all facilities which were left abandoned at Saglemi, including buses, power plant, polytanks, streetlights and all kinds of furniture and fittings. We have also taken note of the ongoing theft on a massive scale of all these furniture and fittings at Saglemi. We also observed that contrary to claims made publicly, Saglemi was not at any time during the four-month period under any surveillance or protection that suggests that the Government has every intention to abandon the properties. 

We have taken all these steps in the exercise of our Constitutional Duty as Citizens of a deteriorating and faltering democracy. We consider our actions to be protected by the 1992 Constitution and we will not cease in our efforts to protect Public Property and the right to decent housing. 

In the next few days, we will be holding a press conference to address the public on our enduring commitment to Occupy Saglemi; and to release the pictures and videos. We want Ghanaians to see the true statement of our democracy and the wickedness of those we call our leaders.

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