The Minister of Works and Housing, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said it comes as a relief to see that houses under the Saglemi Housing project are still intact despite reports that the buildings were on fire in the late hours of December 24, 2024.
According to him, it was the container that housed some old materials and documents that got burnt, not the houses.
“I’m happy to see that contrary to the story that the housing project has being burnt down, it is still here, intact. And that it is the old shed with the old materials in there, two of them and the two containers that got burnt,” he told journalists when he visited the site on December 25.
Reports had earlier said that five forty-foot containers used as offices for the Saglemi Housing Project had been burnt down.
This was after the Ghana Fire Service reported a fire outbreak on the night of December 24, 2024.
The inferno, according to the National Fire Service, was prevented from spreading to the main building by fire officers from Sege and Devtraco Fire Stations.
However, the office and its contents have all been lost due to the fire outbreak.
It is not clear what the cause of the fire was, but the Ghana Fire Service has begun investigating the matter.
SSD/AE
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