Ghanaian actor and politician, John Dumelo, has asked the government to shut down the Rent Control Department as he believes the department does not act according to the law of the country.
According to him, the official agreement between landlords and tenants in Ghana should be that “tenants aren’t supposed to be charged above six months rent.”
He explained that landlords forcing tenants to mostly pay two years’ advance rent is illegal and must be checked by the Rent Control Department but all to no avail.
In a tweet sighted by Mr Dumelo, he wrote the new year has begun. Residential tenants are about to cough up 2 years’ rent advance because that’s the ‘Landlords Law.’ What happened to the Rent Law itself? The rent control dept should be closed down. What is really their use?’, he quizzed
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
