Priority View Homes, an Accra-based construction firm, has officially cut the sod for the construction of affordable houses for cocoa farmers at Gomoa Dahom and its environs in the Central Region.
The event begins a housing scheme that will help reduce accommodation challenges of farmers in the area.The decent rental housing project for farmers, has already started in the Gomoa Central District, and is to be replicated to all cocoa farming communities in the country, aiming at building some affordable houses for farmers.
Mr Eric Affaidu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Priority View Homes, who performed the sod cutting ceremony, hinted that the project was to honour and motivate the revered cocoa farmers who had been side-lined for a long time.
According to the CEO, the project for cocoa farmers was long overdue, stressing that some farmers had regretted entering into farming to produce one of the economic backbone of the country due to the fact that they found themselves in abject poverty.
He said the decent housing project was therefore to inspire and encourage cocoa famers to work selflessly to aid them to acquire houses and pay in installment after harvesting the cocoa and selling the beans.
Mr Affaidu said it was unfortunate Ghana had lost its position as the leading producer of cocoa in the world and urged cocoa farmers who had abandoned their farms to return to their farms because his firm would assist them to secure decent housing with flexible terms to accommodate them.
The CEO gave the assurance that the housing scheme project had come to stay, and that the company with good resources and expertise in building construction works, would complete the project as planned to honour the revered farmers.
Nana Kwa-Prah Ababio VII, Chief of Gomoa Dahom, expressed appreciation and gratitude to the company for the initiative and urged the cocoa farmers in and around the town and the rest of Gomoa Central District to take advantage to enjoy the scheme.
The Dahomhene called for concerted efforts from all and sundry to support the housing project for the cocoa farmers and to ensure that the project come to fruition.
By James Esuon, GNA