The Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors, Ghana, has called on government to fast-track the process of establishing a regulatory agency for the construction industry.
According to the association, a regulator is urgently needed in order to sanitise the sector and propel growth.
The president of the association, Martins Kwasi Nnuro, speaking to Class Business on the sidelines of a stakeholders’ meeting, said the current situation where there was a free-for-all, does not augur well for the industry.
He said the stakeholders were finalising a draft regulation, which they hope government would adopt and pass into law.
“We don’t have any direction so we think that we need to have a regulator. So we have agitated for a regulator and we have been agitating and working on it for the past eight years. This time round we have done the draft legislation and we are going through processes in order that it will be finally enacted into law, and, so, the National Development Planning Commission has captured it and is now putting together a national infrastructure plan,” he stated.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
