The Zongo
Development Fund has been cited by the Auditor General for blowing an amount of
GH¢709,000 on rent between August 2020 and August 2022.
The 2020 Auditor
General’s report revealed that the fund pays GH¢29,000 every month as rent
since its establishment.
Speaking at the
Public Accounts Committee sitting, the Chief Executive Officer of the Zongo
Development Fund, Dr. Arafat Sulemana Abdulai explained that efforts made
towards securing a permanent accommodation have proved futile.
“We tried with
the Ministry of Works and Housing to see if we could get any of the
government’s properties, but we were not successful. We also tried to get one
on our own and the lowest we got was around $2.5 million because the landlords
quote their figures in Dollars and looking at what Parliament approves every
year for us, if we want to commit that much to office accommodation, it means
the needs of our Zongo people will not be realized, and so we were not able to
get one.”
“We also tried
with the State Housing Corporation because we were aware they were building
households etc. and so we approached them to know if they had any land anywhere
they could sell to us, so we could start building our own office and the answer
was in the negative.”
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