State Insurance Company, SIC is putting up for sale uncompleted bungalows that were constructed in the early 1970s buildings because it cannot continue with the project.
A bungalow is being sold at ?30 million and no resident in the area is interested in the bungalows that have been exposed to the weather.
The buildings were constructed by the then State Insurance Corporation, SIC in the early 1970s but have been left uncompleted and at the mercy of the weather for all these years with only a few of them completed .
Almost all of these structures have been built to the lintel level. Well laid out and abandoned in the bush. Quite a number of the buildings are dilapidated and almost collapsed.
A few of them, which were completed in those days, are however been occupied by officials of Juapong Textiles and some residents of the town.
According to the paramount chief of Dofor traditional area, Togbega Ribitim Komlaga, the bungalows were put up with the hope that Juapong was going to develop into an industrial hub so the buildings could accommodate workers of the textile company and other companies, which may spring up. This was when production at the textile company was at its peak in 1972.
He says a vast stretch of land was then acquired for the project, which was in three phases, but only one phase has been developed. And even of the developed area, several bungalows have been left uncompleted.
?Unfortunately they could only develop the first phase of the land acquired and the development was incomplete. It was in a very dissatisfactory manner, a few buildings were roofed and rented out while majority of them were unroofed since 1972,? he says
He says the Dofor traditional authority can no longer develop the project and the few completed ones will be sold to the public. But the paramount chief believes all is not lost yet.
He suggests that the district assembly buys the uncompleted house- those that could be salvaged and in turn rent them to natives.
? If the North Tongu-District can be bold to use part of its common fund to acquire all these houses and refurbish them for rental, it will save the situation,? he says.