Accra — Residents of the Redco flats at Madina, a suburb of Accra, are complaining bitterly about the deplorable state of the flats, and the health hazards it poses.

Some residents told the Accra File that for the years they have occupied the flats, there has been no renovations or new constructions on-going on the flats.

The Redco flats, which were constructed and inaugurated on April 3, 1980 by then President, Dr. Hilla Limann, have not seen completed constructions or even renovations, but have rather been abandoned.

On a visit to the place by this reporter, she realized that some of the walls of the building were cracked, the gutters chocked, while the paint work was stained.

The entire environment looks unkempt and very dirty. The nettings of windows facing the streets are torn, while some glass widows had been replaced with wooden ones.

It was discovered that most of the rooms in the buildings were uncompleted, and had been abandoned for a long time.

Some residents told the file that when it rains, water goes into the uncompleted rooms, and leaks onto the car parks and the verandah of the flats, making the entire place wet.

Information reaching the file also indicates that most of the residents in the flats are public servants, whose rents are deducted from their salaries, and included workers of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Ghana Police Service, Ghana Highways, Internal Revenue Service, Ghana Petroleum Company, lecturers of the University of Ghana, and other government workers.

Also due to the insufficient and uncompleted rooms within the flats, most of the residents have been compelled to build wooden structures at the car parks.

The residents lamented that the place was no longer safe, especially when one has children.

But, as at the time the Accra file visited the place, the flats had been without lights for close to five days, and the entire place are in total darkness, especially when climbing and descending the staircases.

Speaking to some personnel at the Ghana Police Service flat, they said the police service had been crying for accommodation, and yet these flats which could have been put up to house some of these police officers, have been left hanging.

They therefore urged the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing, to intervene in this issue, since they were suffering in the flats they were occupying.