Drive through the streets of Accra and Tema at midnight and all you will see is people sleeping on the streets where the sky is their roof and the bare floor is their bed.
My Grandpa once told me that when you are able to own a house then it means 70% of your problems as a human being is solved and this statement was also repeated by a friend so it tells you how important owning a house in GH is.
Kwabena Fosu comes from Oboasi and has worked as a company driver for 20years, he now owns a 2 bedroom house in Ashiaman Atta Deka where he lives with his family.
Baah is from Kwahu and has been selling spare parts at Abossey Okai for more than 30 years, he owns a 5 bedroom apartment on the mountain.
Tetteh is from Somenya and works in Tema as a clearing agent, when he started working he realized that it would be more expensive to rent a house in Tema so he stayed in his fathers house in Somenya and picked the bus(trotro) to work and back for 18years. Now he owns a 3 bedroom house in Somenya where he lives with his family and still picks his trotro to Tema and back everyday.
Kojo Asanti is from Sunyani and has been selling used cloths at kantamanto for the past 12years and out of his savings has managed to build a Chamber and hall in Kasoa and hopes to put up a 3 bedroom on his remaining plot in the near future.
Nii is from Chokor and works as a welder, he has managed to put up a small apartment at comm 18 in Tema and still visits his family house in Chokor every weekend.
Korkuvi is from Keta and a fisherman in keta, he owns a 2 bedroom self-contained where he enjoys his Wife’s Apkle and Aborbi Tatsi every evening.
FlipSide.
Teacher Kweku is a Graduate from Ofinsu and as his name implies he is a teacher in Tema. He lived in a fully furnished government bungalow for all his working years in fact he never paid rent but on the day of his retirement he had nowhere to call his home.
Obeng is from Assin Fosu and a policeman at Osu, he has been living in a government paid apartment for the past 20 years and still has no plans of putting up his own, well I hope he will change his mind before his retirement.
Kweku Boahene put up 2 buildings at the age of 38 when he had the opportunity but had to sell one to ofset some debt at the age of 62 years, he still has one left where he lives with his 2 wives.
Atta Oko’s father left him a 5 Chamber and Hall apartment but he has rented all out and now sleeps on the veranda at night.
All these examples are to show you how people planned their lives during their working years as to whether where to lay their heads was a priority or not.
Majority of our politicians including MPs and public servants have a place they can call their home.
I therefore can’t think far when one who has been an MP for 12 years, a Vice Presido and Presido for 8years with all the ex gratia wants to say he has no place to lay his head or is it a case of entitlement?
I think Ex Presido should exit the Vice Presido residence so that GH can start working cause 4 years is not that long for any government to start on such a needless hiccup note.
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