The developer of the Saglemi Affordable Housing Project, Quarm LMI Consortium, has clarified that a recent fire outbreak at the project site did not damage any housing units or documents related to the project.
According to the consortium, the fire was sparked by laborers clearing weeds as part of preparatory work for the redevelopment of the abandoned site. The fire spread to one of the external warehouses storing expired building materials but did not affect the housing units.
Kofi Adaboh Ofori Amanfo, Managing Director of Quarm LMI Consortium, explained during a site visit by the Sector Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, on December 26 that the laborers set a controlled fire to clear debris, which later got out of control. The blaze was quickly contained with help from the fire station in Sega.
Ofori Amanfo emphasized that the fire did not reach the housing units, which remain unaffected, as no construction has yet begun on them.
Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah urged the consortium to accelerate work to meet the project’s completion timeline.
“In accordance with the various instruments, like the building code, like the site layout itself, do your best to comply, and then also you’ve given us timelines by which you expect to complete this project, do well to stick to those ones. We’ll wait for the fire department to give us an update of what may have been destroyed in the old shed that got destroyed in that incident.
“But I’m happy to see that contrary to the story that, you know, the housing project has been burnt now. It’s still here intact and that is the old shed with the old materials in there. Two of them, and then two containers that caught fire. At least, that gives us some comfort. So carry on with your work,” he stated.
