Saglemi: Mahama Says the Next NDC Gov't Will Review Selection of Quarm-LMI

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has vowed to review the handing over of the Saglemi Housing Project to Quarm-LMI without consulting the allodial landowners.

Mahama argues that the erstwhile NDC administration initiated the project following a land acquisition agreement with the traditional authorities of Ningo-Prampram and therefore it is imperative for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to do the same before changing the status of the project.

The government, after months of negotiations, gave the project to private developer Quarm-LMI to complete it. 

Addressing a gathering at Prampram as part of his Greater Accra campaign, Mahama pledged to promptly address the socioeconomic concerns of the Ningo-Prampram constituency in his next administration.

"But the point I am making to them is that if you are changing the status of that project from a government project to a private project, you need to discuss with the allodial owners of the land.

“And so, I know they haven’t done that discussion. You cannot alienate that land by handing that project to a private company without permission and discussion and negotiation with the allodial owners, who are the Ningo people," Mahama noted.