My attention has been drawn to the intended Sod Cutting of the already ongoing construction of a Permanent Hajj Village at the Spintex Road stretch of the Airport lands, opposite the Action Chapel, Accra which was commenced by the erstwhile NPP administration and I present the facts as follows;

1. The process for the construction of this project was initiated by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo- Bawumia Government as far back as 2017 through the then Minister for Aviation, the late Kofi Adda but later saw a monumental push from the former Minister for Transport, Hon. Kweku Asiamah.

2. ⁠This was in pursuant to an appeal by the Ghana Hajj Board for a befitting Hajj Village for its operations. The Ministry of Transport and the GACL therefore settled on a site opposite the Action Chapel on the Spintex Road stretch of the Airport and the contract for the construction was awarded to a company called MAWUMS in 2024 after a PPA approval.

3. ⁠This legacy of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo-Bawumia government is one that was seen as a sacred project based on its religious underpinnings thereby avoiding any form of fun fair, pomp and pageantry in the name of Sod Cutting.

4. ⁠We therefore urge the current government to acknowledge the new Hajj Village construction currently ongoing as a legacy project of Nana Addo Dankwa-Bawumia government.

Attached are designs for the project and images of its construction currently underway.

SIGNED

Hon Ben Abdallah Banda Esq.

Former Chairman, Ghana Hajj Board

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