Finally we are please to tell everyone that
the construction of all 109 houses has been completed.
It’s a great landmark for the community and
for Ocean Blue Resorts that funded the project. The community and OBRI were all
please at the news that this phase of the project had been completed. But there
were mixed emotions.
After months of delays and overruns,
massive over spending on the budget and the usual administration silly games,
the celebrations will have to wait.
Why you all scream? After 4 years of building!!
Time for some hard facts and hopefully
the right people reading. OBRI’s job was to build 109 houses. The regional gov’s
job is to build a mosque, school, provide electricity and water. Simple really.
This is my job and this is yours.
If the regional administration had actually
put a schedule together at the same time that OBRI started building thing would
be different. The community need their Mosque and everyone knows that they will
not move to the new village without one being built. Despite requests in October
last year (5 months ago) by OBRI to create a time line to construct all that the
villagers need, the administration wait until OBRI has finished building. So
now even though OBRI has done its job and the houses are completed, the
community cannot move in.
Not a good story for this election time in
Lombok. And the excuses are typical. Ie.. It’s the election time so everyone
busy. It’s the end of the financial year. And the best one...We were waiting to
see if OBRI would actually finish the houses.
For once, the CEO of OBRI was not available
for comment, but this is a hot story that needs to be told. Watch this space.
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