What a mess!
The poor handling of the mass housing project by central government has seemingly come back to haunt us again.
Since the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) was stripped off its mass housing mandate and replaced by the line ministry, government has been flip-flopping on this issue, with no clear status reports being made available for scrutiny.
It is saddening that 34 houses that were severely damaged by a rainstorm at Rundu in December 2017 are still unrepaired to this day.
More worryingly, the custodians of this project, officials in the ministry of urban and rural development, have elected to pass the buck, without saying who should be held responsible for this mess.
Instead of focusing on delivering houses to the needy, government allowed the project to be politicised by personal agendas, and this explains why the ministry is failing to execute this mandate.
Government is there to initiative policy and it is important that they leave the job of administering to focused bureaucrats, who have the expertise.
No wonder government is struggling to sell some of the social and credit-linked houses built under the programme.
How do we get out of this self-imposed mess?
Since the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) was stripped off its mass housing mandate and replaced by the line ministry, government has been flip-flopping on this issue, with no clear status reports being made available for scrutiny.
It is saddening that 34 houses that were severely damaged by a rainstorm at Rundu in December 2017 are still unrepaired to this day.
More worryingly, the custodians of this project, officials in the ministry of urban and rural development, have elected to pass the buck, without saying who should be held responsible for this mess.
Instead of focusing on delivering houses to the needy, government allowed the project to be politicised by personal agendas, and this explains why the ministry is failing to execute this mandate.
Government is there to initiative policy and it is important that they leave the job of administering to focused bureaucrats, who have the expertise.
No wonder government is struggling to sell some of the social and credit-linked houses built under the programme.
How do we get out of this self-imposed mess?
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