The Communication Director of the NPP, Nana Akomea has described Dr Tony Aidoo’s justification of the government's decision to abandon housing projects started by the Kufuor administration as shamefully petty. Dr Aidoo, who is the Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the Presidency told Joy News at the weekend that “The projects were ill-conceived, and therefore the cost of executing these projects is not in our budget, nor do they fit into our scheme of things so far as our electoral promises are concerned." But Nana Akomea said the decision not to complete the buildings was in the "partisan, parochial interest [of the governing NDC] that does not take account of the national interest.” The Okaikoi South MP, who was speaking on Joy FM'S Super Morning Show Monday morning said “how anybody can say that housing is not a priority is difficult to understand. There are so many projects that were started by the NPP that are still being continued by the NDC because they are good projects,” citing the Accra-Asaprochona rail line, school feeding programme, the free maternal care among others as very good projects that the government has continued because they were well thought-out. He was at a loss as to why a project such as the affordable housing project does not feature in the budget of the government maintaining that there was no excuse for the government to discontinue such project spread across the nation to the benefit of all. Mr. Akomea pointed out that there is no reason why the first face of the STX deal worth over 1.5 billion dollars cannot encompass the uncompleted affordable housing units. But Dr. Tony Aidoo in a rebuttal explained that his call for government to abandon projects started by the NPP stems from the fact that some of those projects were ill-conceived. “The projects are ill-conceived because inasmuch it has good intentions, the beneficiaries do not represent, what you might call real public interest,” he stated. He criticized the NPP for allocating the uncompleted affordable housing units to themselves, a project he contends is supposed to ease the housing deficits in the country, an allegation Nana Akomea denied. Dr Tony Aidoo further stated that, the government is constantly being criticized by the NPP for continuing projects that they left behind. “For two years we have stayed true to the Directive Principles of State Policy and yet what we are getting in response from the NPP is that every time we point that we completed this project, they say, 'oh! you lack initiative'. Go and read their response to the first 50 of the NDC projects that were published. All that they are saying is that none of the projects was started by us and we lack initiative. So I believe the time has come for the NDC to show that we have initiative,” he asserted. Story by Derick Romeo Adogla/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana