Government says it is building over 20,000 housing units across the country.
The houses are in several stages of completion, a deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said.
“For eight years they did 4,900. We, in less than four years have 20,368 to show,” he stated on Joy FM’s Cross Fire programme on Wednesday.
Giving the breakdown, the deputy Minister said 168 of those houses are under construction in Tema for employees of the Bureau of National Investigations. 5000 others in Kpone; 10,000 housing units at Amasaman.
Some of the houses, he said, are being constructed for public servants and security agencies.
“All the details of the addresses and the companies constructing them have been spelt out,” in a press statement by the Works and Housing Minister, Okudzeto Ablakwa added.
“When you put all together we are exceeding 30,000 units as compared to the abysmal 4,720 housing units which even the ordinary Ghanaian could not have access to,” he stated.
The revelation comes several months after the infamous STX and Guma housing fiasco which was to provide several thousands of housing units to low income earning Ghanaians.
The deputy Minister argued that the ruling government has a better track record in terms of fulfilling its campaign promise than the opposition party which has made empty promises a cheap campaign gimmick to win votes.
But the Director of Communications for the NPP, Nana Akomea rubbished the over 30,000 housing units said to be under construction under the NDC government.
According to him, the so-called housing units are what business men and housing agencies are constructing on their own without any government assistance.
He challenged the deputy Minister to provide the intervention put in place by the government to support the individuals and companies putting up the houses.
He mocked at the government to add his (Akomea) own house he is building as part of the achievement of the government.