State Housing Company Limited (SHC) has handed over keys to seven (7) new bungalows to the Ghana Immigration Service in the Western North Regional Capital if Sefwi Wiawso.
The seven (7) detached bungalows comprise of 2 and 3 bedrooms for the use of officers of the Western Command of GIS.
It was the third time in three years that the State Housing Company had handed over bungalows to the Ghana Immigration Service.
At a brief ceremony on Tuesday 21st June 2022, the Interior, Hon Abrose Derry was full of praise for the level of collaboration between GIS and SHC and urged other State institutions to emulate their relationship.
He observed that the successful completion of the project is a “testimony of the government’s resolve towards retooling the security agencies.”
The Interior Minister assured officers, rank and file of all security agencies under his Ministry, that their accommodation challenges would be resolved.
The Deputy Managing Director of SHC, Madam Sherifa Tijani-Sekyere who handed over the keys to the Interior Minister, commended Katakyie Kwasi Bumangama II, Omanhene of the Sefwi Wiaso traditional area for his visionary leadership in giving the parcel of land to SHC for a housing project.
The ceremony saw in attendance the Comptroller General of GIS, Asuah Takyi, Western North Regional Minister Richard Obeng, a delegation of Chiefs as well as Management of SHC.
In 2017, the Omanhene, Katakyie Kwasi Bumangama II gifted the SHC about 400 acres of land for housing purposes in anticipation of the Sefwi Wiawso being declared as a Regional capital after the referendum to create new regions.
It would be recalled that in March 2021 nine units of bungalows built by SHC were in handed over to the GIS in Sunyani in the Bono Region.
It formed part of moves by Ghana’s number one builder, the SHC to partner state institutions to provide accommodation facilities for their staff as well as office facilities.
I haven’t Endorsed Bawumia, I have Confidence in Alan Kyerematen and All in the Race-Former Prez
Ghana’s former President HE John Agyekum Kufuor has denied malicious media reports suggesting he has endorsed the Presidential dreams of current Vice President, Dr Mahamud Bawumia.
Media reports went viral suggesting that John Agyekum Kufuor has endorsed HE Dr Mahamud Bawumia as his preferred candidate to lead the New Patriotic Party to the 2024 General Elections.
In a strongly worded communique issued by the office of the former President and signed by his side Dr Kwabena Osei Adubufuor, the revered statesman called on the party machinery to stay away from internal machination in the supreme interest of the party.
At a reception at the Peduase Lodge Hotel on Father’s Day, also attended by he Vice President,
President Kufuor described all the aspirants as his children and that the party must try as much as possible to avoid swinging the political pendulum if in favour of any of the aspirants if they have the party at heart.
The statement said in part: “this office wants to emphatically deny that no such endorsement took place on the said occasion and bemoans the facts that what transpired has been seriously misconstrued”.
The statement further cautioned the party against political concoctions in the larger interest of the herculean break the eight agenda.
