Gov’t Reconsiders Saglemi Housing Deal (Focus Returns to Affordable Public Homes!)
Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Minister for Government Communications, has said that the government is looking into the decision by the previous Akufo-Addo administration to give the Saglemi Housing Project to a private developer. He said this is because they are worried that it goes against the project’s original goal of providing affordable public housing. On TV3 on January 17, 2026, he said that the project, which was started in 2012 by President John Dramani Mahama to solve Ghana’s housing shortage, stopped after 2017 and sat unused for almost eight years. In late 2024, a private group called Quarm-LMI was chosen to finish it using the state’s investment as equity. The current administration says it is reevaluating the deal to make sure the project is finished in a way that protects the public interest and meets its original goal of providing affordable housing. This is because only 1,506 of the planned 5,000 units are partially completed, and there are claims that basic infrastructure is missing.
