CVM asks NDC to explain its silence on the Saglemi housing project

General news for Thursday, October 1, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-10-01

The Concerned Voters Movement has asked the members of the National Democratic Congress Manifesto writing committee to explain to Ghanaians their silence on the Saglemi Housing Project.

“In his manifesto, former President John Dramani Mahama, who leads the party in the 2020 elections under NDC Manifesto Social Housing, page 94, promised that“ the next NDC government, over a period of four years, will implement an aggressive social housing plan to deliver a minimum of 20,000 low-income homes in the 260 metropolises, municipalities and districts.

“We at CVM want to know; why are Mr. Mahama and the entire NDC People’s Manifesto silent about the Saglemi Affordable Housing project that the NDC government started in 2012 and is not yet finished?

This was in a statement signed by Mr. Razak Kojo Opoku, Founder and President of CVM and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra. He said that a critical examination of the NDC People’s Manifesto represents a total abandonment of reality.

CVM said they hoped the 143-page document would be a social contract between the NDC and Ghanaians, giving millions of citizens aspirations to realize their potential regardless of their social, economic and political backgrounds.

He said that the NDC’s People’s Manifesto portrayed a different image of what the Social Democrats aspired to and rather focused on defending an agenda to win the 2020 elections through politics.

The statement said, among other promises in the framework of social housing, Mr. Mahama also promised that “the next NDC government will work to end the access and cost crisis of securing affordable land for residential purposes and the installation of 5,000 housing units, which was started by the NDC administration in 2012, sits on a 300-acre site with one- to three-bedroom low-income apartments designed to reduce the country’s huge housing deficit. But what is the end result today? “

He questioned how the $ 200 million budgeted for 5,000 housing units remained the same budget for 1,502 or 1,024 housing units and called on Ghanaian voters to reject the NDC in the next election.

The statement noted that the stalled Saglemi Housing Project was one of the classic examples of how the NDC administration under Mr. Mahama failed.

He said the NDC People’s Manifests failed to capture any aspect of their flagship housing project and CVM will continue to expose them in some of its promises.