Accommodation facilities at the residency of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council are rotting away, after years of neglect by the New Patriotic Party administration.

About five houses, including the Regional Minister's residency and the Presidential Lodge, were left unoccupied for eight years, leading to their deterioration.

Within the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council is the residency occupying a huge acre of land.

The grass at the once beautiful landscape is now dried up due to the harmattan, with the flowers withering.

The houses here are beautifully sited on the land, but a close glance shows the poor state of the buildings.

The Presidential Lodge commissioned in 2004 under President Kufuor is unkempt and overtaken by weeds.

Parts of the ceiling from the outside are broken, with painting on the building peeling off. Regional Chairman of the NDC, Augustus Nana Akwasi Andrew is worried about the state of the facility.

“When we were in power, the place was kept clean and green. The place looked like the seat of government but now the place looks abandoned”, he said.

For eight years, the Regional Minister's office situated within the same premises was unused. Two other facilities which are supposed to be guest houses for government officials seem to have been burgled.

Sliding windows to both guest houses are broken, some air-conditioners fitted in the rooms are removed.
Curtains and other fittings are left in the dusty rooms.

Security buildings are among the affected.

Regional Secretary of the NDC, Dr. Frank Amoakohene says the facilities need to be renovated, “we will launch an investigation into this issue. It will interest us to know how the Regional Minister got a residency. Was the government renting for him whiles this one was rotting away”.