Tema (Greater Accra), 6 Jan. ’99 – The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) will as from the end of this month take legal action to recover rent arrears of 600 million cedis from tenants. The trust will also be compelled to re-allocate the houses of defaulting tenants to interested people, Mr Kwaku Osei-Bimpong, Acting Head of public affairs department of SSNIT, disclosed at Tema today. He was speaking at the handing-over of a 500 million-cedi eight-classroomed pre-school to the Tema Community Three residents. The school “Ami Margaret” was built in two years. He said SSNIT rents are highly subsidised and was surprised that the tenants are refusing to honour their obligation to pay to enable the trust to recoup monies invest for the benefit of workers. He said the school is part of SSNIT’s programme to provide facilities at its housing estates to make the communities live in comfort and hoped the communities would reciprocate this gesture by honouring their obligations. Mrs Hanna Amoah, Tema Municipal Director of Education, commended SSNIT for providing the communities with schools and appealed to it to build more of such schools at Ashaiman.
