The feuding partners of the STX Engineering and Construction Ltd have agreed to return to the roadmap for the construction of government’s touted affordable housing projects, chairman of the Works and Housing Committee of Parliament, David Tetteh-Assumeng has noted. The Korean and Ghanaian partners have recently been engaged in a boardroom brawl which culminated in both partners pulling out of the deal after the parties failed to reach an agreement over who has the right to execute the contract. The company is to construct 200,000 housing units across the country at the cost of $10 billion. But the deal, since its inception has come under a barrage of criticisms from the opposition party and civil society who suspect foul play. Many have called on the government to abrogate the deal to seek other alternatives to ameliorate the challenges of Ghana’s housing deficit. However, after a crunch meeting to disentangle the locked horns at the office of the Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing with the partners, it has been revealed that “both parties agreed that we should continue to dialogue to resolve the issues”. Mr David Tetteh-Assumeng told Joy News’ Dzifa Bampoh on Tuesday that the ultimate objective for the two to work as a team was achieved at the meeting. Had they taken entrenched positions, he said, it would have spelled doom for the project. He explained that the deal would have to go back to Parliament for approval since the initial agreement ratified by the House was for them to work as a team, hence it would be illegal to go ahead with the construction. He announced that the detail programme for the project would be put forward by the minister for all to follow. Mr Tetteh-Assumeng, who is also the MP for Shai Osu Doku, was confident that the initial construction of 30,000 housing units for the security service would be realised, noting that there was “no cause for alarm” in that the “partnership is not over” yet. “I am very, very confident, and I want to assure the people of this country that we are all confident and we are making sure that the project succeeds and it will succeed by the grace of God.”