A research and workshop on the future of Tema, by Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, Holland, in alliance with the International New Town Institute (INTI), a Netherlands centered body, Global Housing Studio, Design as Politics (DasP) and supported by Tema development corporation themed “urbanization and housing in the southern urban coastal area of the Greater Accra Region (in and around the city of Tema)” is underway.

The workshop seeks to accentuate the future of Tema and aims at devising concrete solutions to identified challenges the city is facing in order to improve the quality of life of the people.

The forum would see public, private and academic partners discussing collected information and sharing their views on how to enhance the city. The auspicious relationship that exists between the two countries (Ghana-Netherlands) would play a significant role in respect to the above.

There has been a presentation on a research on the lives of residents of Tema Manhean carried out by students of Central University College. It revealed their poor standard of living and the need for exigent intervention.

Speaking, the Mayor of Tema, Hon. Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La laid bare the challenges hampering development in the Metropolis, which include general indiscipline, dumping of construction debris along roadsides, poor sanitation situation and refuse collection, indiscriminate felling of decorative trees, apathy on the parts of citizenry, gradual decay of basic infrastructure, weedy roadsides and neglect of open spaces. He further delineated the Assembly’s plan to confront the challenges.

Highlighting on the Tema restoration agenda, the Mayor said the motives of the workshop is in line with the agenda and petitioned major stakeholders to come on board to push the agenda in making Tema a world class Port City.

Hopefully enough, the infrastructural, health, educational and economical difficulties in the metropolis shall come to a minimization and then to an end.