The developer for Saglemi Affordable Housing Project, Quarm LMI Consortium has assured the public that a recent fire at the construction site did not compromise any housing units or critical documents.The blaze, which erupted while the site was being prepared for redevelopment, was caused by laborers who set small fires to clear overgrown weeds.

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Unfortunately, the flames spread to nearby external warehouses containing outdated construction materials.During a site inspection on December 26, alongside Sector Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Managing Director Kofi Adaboh Ofori Amanfo provided clarity on the incident.“So, I think yesterday around 1 o’clock, we had our labourers working on the campsite as you saw it when you came here.

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So as we came here in November, we started trying to clear the campsite to prepare for actual development. So I think some labourers set some little fire just to clear the weeds they had gathered.“But they couldn’t control it, and they had to move into one of our external warehouses that went up, and that’s what, the fire from the fire station at Sege came to help us to quench. So it’s really not the houses, as I said earlier.

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It was the storage area at our campsite and behind me, you can see the houses. It’s not touched. I’ve not even started working in there. So there’s nothing happening here,” he said.Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah expressed his appreciation for the swift response and urged the consortium to expedite the redevelopment while adhering to safety protocols.

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“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.

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“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.

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