It has emerged that attempts to commence the construction of a government housing project in the Upper East region were only made shortly after Vice President Dr. Mahmudu Bawumia had indicated that the project was ongoing.
At an electrifying townhall meeting addressed by the Vice President to showcase government’s achievements in the area of infrastructural development and to launch an online portal for tracking of the projects, it was announced that a 120 housing units and apartments project was ongoing in Pusu Namongo, a community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday 29th November, 2019 cut sod for the construction of the 120 units to be executed under the State Housing Corporation.
The site which was named Rock Estates due to the rocky nature of the district has not seen any meaningful work activities since the ground breaking ceremony by the President.
However, the status of the proposed project has been captured on the newly launched novel delivery delivery tracker as ongoing.
Visits by newsmen to the site has revealed that an earth moving equipment was only moved to the site within 48hrs after the vice president had made an emphatic statement that the project was ongoing.
News reports say the bulldozer was brought in on Thursday August 20, 2020 to clear the site, which was done to some extent.
“Since November when the president came here, it was last Thursday that a driver came here with a machine and cleared the land,”Tibil Nelson, a resident and farmer told journalists who visited the site.
The touting of infrastructural achievement of government has sparked a new wave of debate while igniting checks on the projects named in the data base of ongoing and completed projects under the Nana Addo led administration.
While most have actually been found to exist, a number of the said projects have been discovered to be nonexistent. A situation government spokespersons have admitted were as a result of errors.
