A 72-year-old Ghanaian soil scientist, Dr M.N. Tetteh, who introduced Unibrick Technology in the world, has asked the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to support him to use his technology to build very affordable houses for Ghanaians.
Dr Tetteh who claimed his technology would make housing 45 per cent cheaper, also appealed to the government to release his pilot project at Dansoman Exhibition and
Adenta that were confiscated by the state so that he could develop it into the world’s Centre for Earth Construction Technology.
“The centre will also be a permanent exhibition centre where the world’s soil scientists and African patriots will visit as science tourist centre to see and share ideas on African’s soil problems” he said, adding that Ghanaian schools and colleges can visit the centre to learn the technology.
Dr Tetteh made the appeal at a press conference in Accra on Monday.
According to Dr Tetteh, the centre would also afford private entrepreneurs who are into building construction to come and learn the technology so that the present government’s aim of making the private sector the engine of growth could be enhanced.
Dr Tetteh noted that his technology is the only invention which does not have any substitution anywhere in the world and the unique invention, developed by an African and a Ghanaian.
He explained that his invention has a strong durability character and can reduce cement content by 70 per cent.
He said many people and organisations all over the world have tried to imitate his technology but have all failed because “they got stuck when it came to the application of the right quantity of the chemicals to get the desired result”.
He mentioned the chemicals that are required to achieve the right result as his research secret which he does not want to die with.
“If the government does not help, I will go into my grave with my great formalae and invention wasted”.
He hinted that the accompanying machine which he developed in 1975 and named Clu 2000 because its development was in advance of time, could be moved to any soil site for the special bricks to be made without moving the soil at a cost to the machine site.
