A sod-cutting ceremony for the construction of an ultra-modern 500-room hostel complex for the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Cape Coast Polytechnic (C-POLY) was on Thursday, performed at the construction site on campus.
The total estimated cost of the six-storey building which will accommodate about 1,500 students and have facilities like a banking hall, restaurant, supermarket and a conference hall is 24 million Ghana Cedis and will be carried out in phases.
The first phase expected to be completed within nine-months, will comprise the ground and the first floor and is estimated at five million Ghana Cedis.
The Chairperson of the C-Poly Council, Mrs. Emelia Ennin, assisted by the president of the C-Poly SRC, Mr. Benjamin Boateng jointly performed the ceremony and appealed to the contractor to ensure that the project was completed within schedule to help ease the burden of getting accommodation by students.
Mr. Boateng said the SRC was undertaking that project because of the difficulties students go through in securing accommodation which had become an annual ritual and was of the hope that the facility will be of immense benefit to the student body.
