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February 22, 2019
Former Deputy Minister of Works and Housing and Member of Parliament for Bodi, Samson Ahi has taken a swipe at the President for either misinforming or lying to Ghanaians during the State of the Nations Address on Thursday.
According to the former Deputy Minister, during the tenure of former President John Agyekum Kuffor there was no affordable housing started in Ho, which the President said at the SONA that he would continue.
“President did not talk about the real state of the nation address and strategy he would put in place and move us out of the problems we are facing as a count”.
He further pointed out in an interview that the President got it wrong, Kuffor never started affordable housing in Ho, rather Tamale, Koforidua, Kumasi and Wa.
“Listening to him I ask myself is the President lying to Ghanaians or he was misinformed, I do not have confidence in what he says two years getting to three years now, they have not even bought a land let alone buying sand to construct one house”, he lamented.
Again those houses he claimed through their effort they engaged, Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to secure funding to complete that is not true, “we took journalists to Botiano site to see completed structures”.
“We started the Kumasi one, so for the President to say that they started it, I do not want to use the word, it is unfortunate, two years they told us they were doing investigation, he should tell us the state of those investigations. As we speak we do not know the state of those investigation, we want to know the state of Saglemi project”.
He noted that the current government should be charged for causing financial lose for the abandonment of all the housing projects, if they had continue we would have had some Ghanaians living there, he emphasised.
“We handed five blocks over to the military before we left office same to the state housing, they sold it out to people who are living in it now. Before Kuffor left power they had not even sent road, drainage and electricity there”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com