SEE: Cedi House falling apart as we look on

It is no secret that there exists a lack of proper maintenance culture especially when it comes to properties belonging to the state.

Everybody looks on while facilities built with huge sums of  taxpayers' money deteriorate to the point where we have to spend  so much just to rehabilitate them.

One such facility suffering from this curse of lack maintenance is the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Office Building Annex  which is simply referred to as the CEDI House.

Started in 1970 and completed in 1973, the building houses the Banking and Supervision Departments as well as the Central Securities Depository of the BoG.

It also is home to the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and a host of other prestigious companies and banks.

Consisting of fourteen floors with two additional underground floors, the CEDI House is one of the tallest buildings in the country and its proximity to the Central Business District of Accra makes it a prime office location for top companies.

Since it belongs to a reputable institution like the Bank of Ghana, one would have thought it would not suffer the same fate as the many others but it looks like the lack of maintenance culture permeates through every fabric of the Ghanaian society. 

One does not need any technical expertise to conclude that those put in charge of maintaining the facility are not doing their job well, that is to say, if there is somebody in charge or that somebody is doing his/her job at all.

Notwithstanding the fact that primenewsghana was not granted access to the facility, the short tour we did on the blind side of the private security men, police officers and soldiers guarding the place revealed a lot of broken T&J panel ceilings of  many of the building's floors.

Apart from that, a lot of the window panels are also broken and are falling off while slabs covering the outer drainage system are also breaking.

Some window panels hang while some have fallen off

To put it bluntly, the facility as it is now is on the decline and does not really befit the status of a prime office location for top businesses and a dent on the image of its owners.

When asked if he was pleased with the state the facility was in, one of the private security men who accosted us for taking pictures in a security zone, said he had nothing against us but was only doing his job.

According to him, in his time as a worker at the place, the only major rehabilitation of the facility he had witnessed was done around 1996 when J.J. Rawlings commissioned the new work.

"If it were owned by a private person, the story would have been different", he added.