Ashaiman, May 23, - The
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Centre has reported that some landlords in
the Ashaiman Municipality exchange sex for accommodation.
The annual 2017 report of the
ADR, Ashaiman Centre, made available to the Ghana News Agency.
Drafts251 indicated that “In some
cases, landlords exchange rent with sex for a period of time”.
The report compiled by the three
Mediators at the Centre revealed that in some cases, caretakers took advantage
of female prospective tenants and demand for sex even though they were not the
owners of the houses.
They stated for instance that in
one of such cases, a caretaker who was entrusted with a house due to the
absence of the landlord, rented a room in the apartment to a lady for two
years.
It added that the caretaker who
started an affair with the female tenant, verbally extended her rent for
another one year term after the expiration of the initial payment.
He again extended the rent period
to an additional one year during which period he continued his affair with her
even though she was pregnant for another man.
According to the ADR, the
caretaker ordered the lady to vacate the room after she broke up with him but
she refused on the grounds that they had a two-year verbal tenancy agreement.
The ADR Mediators indicated that
they managed to convince the caretaker to compensate the lady after he revealed
that he was not the owner of the apartment and that he was ejecting her because
the landlord wanted his property.
The report also mentioned a case
in which a landlord caught his wife having sexual intercourse with a tenant leading
to his ejection.
The ADR Centre which serves
Ashaiman and its environs recorded a total of 825 rent cases in 2017 which
showed a reduction of four cases over the 829 handled in 2016.
Most of the cases bothered on
financial constrain, high increment on rent, failure to pay rent on time, loss
of jobs as a result some tenants could not afford to pay their rents as
scheduled.
Others were keeping pets and
entertaining visitors contrary to their tenancy agreements.
GNA
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