In response to this www.ghanaweb.com business news web-page story of Thursday, 24 June 2010 (apparently sourced from a Mr. Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko?), with the above title; why do our political leaders simply not pass a new law, which will ring-fence the revenues from the Department of National Lotteries (DNL) – and devote it to the construction of affordable housing nationwide, henceforth?
If a clause is included in such a law, for example, which states that buyers of lottery tickets will automatically be entered into a special lottery for the selection of individuals to be allocated the affordable houses (and that that is the only way for Ghanaians to acquire such houses!); surely, that will avoid the usual practice of politically well-connected individuals scheming to buy up almost all the units in such housing projects: for themselves; the members of their family clans; and their cronies – and bring fairness into the allocation of such houses?
Well, one certainly hopes that Mr. Alban Bagbin, who heads the ministry for water resources, works and housing, will discuss this idea of funding the 200,000 houses from local sources, with the so-called “Joint Committee of the Ghana Institute of Architects, Ghana Institute of Planners, Ghana Institution of Engineers and Ghana Institution of Surveyors” mentioned in the said www.ghanaweb.com business news web-page story of Thursday, 24 June 2010. A word to the wise...
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