The Ministry of Works and Housing has put together three committees to help tackle challenges confronting the housing sector in the country.
The committees are the ministerial advisory board, the entity tender committee and the audit committee.
These committees, among other things, are to ensure that the ministry pursues the implementation of recommendations contained in internal audit reports, Parliament’s decision in the auditor general’s report, the auditor general’s management letter and other reports relating to financial matters.
Inaugurating the committees, Francis Asenso Boakye, Minister of Works and Housing charged the committees to make input that will help reduce the current housing deficit which is more than two million.
Asenso Boakye said the current political leadership “is very much determined to tackle the numerous challenges facing the Works and Housing sector of the economy.
“I am confident that with the emerging partnership between the political, bureaucratic leadership of the Ministry, and the ministerial advisory board, in particular, we can surmount these challenges,” he said.
He also urged the committees to ensure that each stage of the procurement processes and procedures as prescribed in the law are strictly adhered to.
The housing gap
In April 2019, Samuel Atta Akyea, the then Minister of Works and Housing, announced that the housing deficit had topped two million, up from 1.5 million in 2015.
He said between 190,000 and 200,000 housing units will need to be built, at a total cost of US$3.4 billion a year over the next decade, if Ghana is to close the gap.
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