Frederick Opoku, the Acting Commissioner of Rent Control, has listed several activities and behaviours that could give landlords grounds to evict tenants from their properties.
The Rent Commissioner disclosed that landlords can evict tenants if they bring multiple men or women into the house.
Frederick Opoku explained that tenants who owe their landlords or landladies rent could face eviction.
He highlighted that both landlords and tenants must comply with the country’s rent laws to ensure peace and stability in the rental sector.
Speaking in an interview on Neat FM on August 21, 2026, Frederick Opoku said, “Grounds on which a landlord can evict you from his house if you are a tenant and you feel that because you have paid money, that is all, it doesn’t work that way.
“No tenant should owe his landlord or landlady. If you owe rent for one month, the landlord can evict you. Secondly, as a tenant, you need to keep the house clean. If the place becomes too dirty, you can be evicted. If you are selling drugs, you can be evicted. Also, if you bring multiple men or women into the house, you can be evicted.
“This happens because, in our tradition, children learn from us. So, if you bring multiple men or women into the house, you can be evicted because the children will learn from that,” he said.
In other news, Bishop Akwasi Owusu-Bi, the President of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Hostel Owners Association, has told the Acting Rent Control Commissioner, Frederick Opoku, to go to East Legon to control rent prices.
Frederick Opoku has recently been touring some hostels and raising questions about what he describes as exorbitant charges.
According to Frederick Opoku, he recommends price regulation to protect students from what he considers excessive hostel fees.
However, Bishop Akwasi Owusu-Bi, speaking in an interview, argued that controlling prices is not the best solution to the problem.
According to him, if the government wants to control prices, it should start from East Legon where prices are quoted in dollars.
The President, KNUST Hostel Owners stated, “I remember in 1988, the government embarked on the Structural Adjustment Programme. It came out clearly that controlling prices wasn’t the best for the system. It rather made items run short because nobody wanted to go by the government prices”.
“So, then they hit all the items and you had to go through the back door to get them. So, when the programme realised that this was the effect of it, they scrapped controlling prices in Ghana,” he stated.
“So, when all of a sudden we heard that rent control was coming up, I was like, so what are we doing? When did we begin to control prices in Ghana?” he asked.
He added, “If you want to control prices in Ghana, where do we start from? If we are starting from the Ministry of Works and Housing, that’s the housing rent, why don’t you start from East Legon? Why don’t you start from Nhyiaeso and all those places?”
“They should begin from East Legon, where prices are quoted in dollars and not in cedis. That’s where they should begin from”.
“And not when a group of people have come together to put up accommodation for students whom the students cannot be accommodated on campus, and you think you want to defend such students.
“If we withdraw our services, what do you do?” he asked.
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