A senior member of the NPP communication team, Nana Akomea has said that, his party the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will pay the rent advance of Ghanaian youth if it wins the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.
This according to him was due to the problem of high rent and long rent advance. However, voters have questioned why the NPP wishes to embark on such policy when they have been in power for almost four years?
Speaking to the press on Monday, October 26, 2020, Nana Akomeah said the “government will in effect pay the rent Advance for you, and you pay the rent monthly to the scheme.
“In effect then, the NPP government in its next term will eliminate the big problem of rent advance facing the youth and indeed many other Ghanaians.”
He explained that the government in its second term would implement the move through the National Rental Assistance Scheme – a new, novel, and a revolutionary scheme that would among other things provide low-interest loans to eligible Ghanaian youth solely to enable them to pay for rental accommodation adding that the beneficiary youth would repay the loans on a monthly basis.
He said the government would also set up seed capital of GH¢100 million, which would serve the purpose of leverage to attract additional investment from the private sector.
The “government will implement the necessary regulatory and operational bodies to anchor the policy…Indeed as we speak, a new Rent Control Act has been drafted for review by Cabinet in this direction. So basically, when this National Rental Assistance comes into being in the next NPP government, the big problem of two to three years Advance rent would greatly reduce, if not ended,” he stated.
A post conference survey conducted by Ghanamatters.com suggest that majority of the youth in Ghana have no trust in the policy.
Out of 100 youth randomly surveyed in the capital city of Accra, only five said they would rather the government enforced the existing laws. About 85 percent of the responded said, the government was using this policy to deceive voters.
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Ghanamatters.com
