Some customers of real estate company, Romeoville Properties located at
Kokomlemle in Accra, are calling on the ministry of works and housing and the Ghana Real
Estate Development Association to intervene in what they suspect to be a fraudulent rip-off by
the company’s CEO, Gabriel Zanu.
These customers, who jointly bought parcels of land at Gbetsile, a developing community
within the Kpone Katamanso Municipality say the company in 2020 demanded they returned all
their signed and stamped indentures indicating a dispute between royal families of Apolonia
and Gbetsile demanded that both family’s names are imprinted on the indenture.
It has been three years and clients say all efforts to get their indentures returned have proved
futile.
According to them other clients who have not developed their lands – though paid for – have had them confiscated and swapped for different parcels of land – all in breach of the terms and agreements the company signed with its customers.
“I live in the US and upon hearing an advert about this company, decided to buy and develop a plot of land. Till date I have invested almost 100,000 cedis. As I speak, I don’t have my indenture returned, after almost 3 years and the CEO too is being slippery, he doesn’t pick calls,” a client, who chose to be called Kofi Agyapong alleged.
Some clients said a visit to the site sees all works grounded to a halt. With investments nearing 1 million cedis on the balance. Meanwhile, these clients are insisting on government to root out charlatans in the housing sector to make it attractive to investors abroad.
“We say year of return, Ghana is a destination for investors, and yet, we come down and invest
only to be defrauded, that’s a travesty. We won’t advice anyone abroad to buy land in Ghana,”
another client, based in the UK stated.
Meanwhile management and CEO of Romeoville Properties, Gabriel Zanu, is yet to respond to
these concerns.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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