The national Ministry of Housing and Physical Planning is discouraging prefabricated buildings because they are very expensive and last short.
Director-General of Housing Silver Clerk told CRN on Thursday that the Ministry is encouraging private people and organizations to construct permanent buildings.Engineer Clerk said prefabs should be used only as temporary solutions and in emergencies.
He said most of the prefabricated offices and houses built between 2006 and 2007 are now worthless.
Engineer Clerk said the ministry needed to know what new NGOs are coming to do and how much funds they have because building prefabricated houses is expensive.
He advised all the institutions and NGOs to construct permanent buildings because South Sudan is now an independent and stable nation.
This comment comes after American-based New Orleans Consultancy Ltd placed a 53.3-million US dollar contract with an Ethiopian company to construct 888 prefabricated houses for South Sudan.
This agreement was signed on December 24, 2012 in Ethiopia as part of a 450-million US dollar housing contract that American company has with the South Sudanese government.