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Some tenants within the Greater Accra region are appealing to authorities to amend and implement existing laws on tenancy to protect citizens from exploitation. According to them, it was important for the government to regulate the real estate leasing industry that currently exposed tenants to exorbitant rent rates from landlords and illegal and unwarranted charges and commission including airtime charges from agents. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Ms. Jessica Kateno, a single mother and a prospective tenant said she was struggling to rent a decent room for herself and her two children. She revealed that some agents she had engaged in the past had added their margins to the original accommodation rates thereby making rooms expensive. “They most often incr...

Professor Justice Ofori, Commissioner of Insurance, has encouraged Ghanaians to patronise fire insurance to protect their properties.He said fire insurance was very important and that individuals, including tenants in a house, could buy fire insurance to protect their properties.“You don’t need to be a house owner or a landlord to buy fire insurance,” he explained.“Insurance is an aid to security and empowers us to face risk and uncertainties…most of the development in the world are possible because of insurance,” he said.Prof. Ofori said this at a day’s training programme for selected media persons on Insurance issues.The Ghana Insurance College has for the last four years run training programmes for some journalist across the country on insurance.Prof. Ofori commended the media for thei...

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Tenants appeal for protection from exploitative agents and landlords

Tenants can buy fire insurance to protect their properties – Prof. Ofori