Shal­iza Has­sanali

?Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Jear­lean John is promis­ing to put her heart and soul in­to man­ag­ing Ude­cott's af­fairs trans­par­ent­ly. If she mess­es up, John says, she knows she will pay a high price. "I know the onus is on me to do a good job. I tell you I am hop­ing, af­ter God, not to fail in that ob­jec­tive. I am go­ing to take day and make it night. "I would not take that on and play the fool with it. I am go­ing to do my best," John vowed, dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day. John thanked the coun­try for giv­ing her an­oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ty to serve, promis­ing she will not dis­ap­point. "All I want to do in this stage of my life is clear the path and go." John tried to al­lay the fears of hous­ing ap­pli­cants who queried yes­ter­day if she was go­ing to be moved from the HDC to ful­fil her du­ties at Ude­cott.

"Let us not pre-empt any­thing. I am here now, and for the time I am here, let no one wor­ry. I will be there do­ing my work. What­ev­er hap­pens it be the will of God. I am com­mit­ted to the peo­ple. There is no need to pan­ic," the HDC boss as­sured. If Gov­ern­ment de­cid­ed to move her from the HDC, John said there'd be com­pe­tent peo­ple to take on the task. There were oth­ers be­hind her who want­ed to do big­ger and bet­ter things. John said with HDC's de­liv­ery of low-in­come hous­es and Ude­cott's so­cial in­fra­struc­ture pro­grammes, the two state agen­cies could con­nect. "These two state agen­cies can seek af­ter the so­cial needs of the coun­try. This will be a nice mar­riage." Hav­ing worked with the HDC for the last four months, John said the Prime Min­is­ter had looked at and eval­u­at­ed her per­for­mance. "To have been giv­en me an­oth­er as­sign­ment, may be the Prime Min­is­ter was not dis­ap­point­ed."