Upper East Regional Communication Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Ayamga Ayinbisa has dismissed assertions that government has abandoned the Rock Estate affordable housing project at Pusu-Namogo in the Talensi District .
Peter Ayinbisa said although he does not know when contractors working on the project will return to site, it will be completed.
He stated that a number of such projects under the auspices of the State Housing Corporation are being constructed in various regions and government is committed to seeing to their completion.
“There are a lot of them (housing projects) that are at various stages of completion and State Sousing Corporation will continue with those projects particularly the ones they started like Rock Estate and co and they are going to continue and complete”.
He added “I have no idea when the contractor is going to come back to site (at the Rock Estate Housing project) but I believe the contractor will come back to site so that the project will continue”.
Mr. Ayinbisa said this in reaction to a statement issued by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the district, criticising government for abandoning the project.
According to the NDC, the government has neglected the project after constructing just a two-bedroom structure despite making political capital out of it in the lead up to the 2020 Elections.
This, in their estimation, is unconscionable and a betrayal of the trust of the people of the region particularly those whose farmlands have taken over to site the housing facility.
But Ayinbisa said, unlike the NDC and its government that did not ensure value for money in undertaking similar projects, the Akufo-Addo government wants to ensure that the state is mot short-changed.
President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in late 2019, cut sod for the construction of 120 affordable housing units at Pusu-Namogo in the Talensi District.
But not much has been done at the site of the project christened Rock Estate Affordable Housing since that ceremonial event.
Few structures have been put up but have been left abandoned.
Deputy Minister of Works and Housing and MP for Binduri, Abdulai Abanga had attributed the stall of work on the project to lack of demand for the houses being built.
But for the NDC, the government simply lacks foresight and is not committed to improving the living conditions of the people of the area.
