President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that his administration will build 5,000 houses in every state for public workers every year over the next three years.

The assurance was made monday during the ground breaking ceremony of Nigeria’s first civil servants housing estate in Apo Extension, Abuja under the Federal Integrated Staff Housing (FISH) programme.

Buhari, who was represented at the occasion by the Minister of State for Power, Work and Housing,
Mustapha Baba Shehuri, said his administration was planning to recreate more of similar models across the nation to ease the accommodation burden being faced by middle and low earning workers.
Nigeria has budgeted the sum of N40 billion on housing this year.

Alread, it is understood that integrated housing estates will be developed in Lagos, Bauchi and Cross River States under Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement.

Yesterday’s launching was chaired by business mogul, Aliko Dangote, who said his company would widen the scope of FISH to enable workers have their own houses by the time they live service.
The FISH Programme was designed to provide affordable housing for public servants through an integrated strategy involving group land acquisition, infrastructure development, inter-ministerial collaboration, site services and support from mortgage finance bank.

The project will be cited on a parcel of land in Chafuyi Village measuring 60 hectares and will be developed through private partnership led by ABSI Building Systems International.
The American firm intends to use half of the land to build low cost houses for federal civil servants, while the remaining half will be used for luxury houses.

The Permanent Secretary, Common Services, who is the Chairman of the project Mr. S.K.Y Adelakun, said the price limit prices for the low cost houses are N5 million, N9 million and N12 million for one bedroom, two bedrooms and three bed rooms respectively.

“All federal civil servants are eligible to apply for allocation to these houses depending on their ability to pay the equity contributions required for mortgage approval and the monthly repayment their salaries can accommodate. It is also a requirement to be a registered member of FISH Corporative Society to be eligible,” Adelakun said.

The scheme was commemorated with the allocation of 10 houses each of one bedroom, two bedrooms and three bedrooms through open balloting system supervised by National Lottery Commission.
Though it was felt that the cost of the building was beyond the reach of public workers, Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, said what was offered for now was a commercial limit, adding that prices would crash through inter ministerial intervention and giving of loans to estate developers to bring down the costs.

Fedayeen02:
A government that can't pay salaries



A government that has no headway


A sycophantic government



A government of ZOMBIES by ZOMBIES and for ZOMBIES

ManirBK:
The federal government on Monday, August 1, 2016 inaugurated a comprehensive housing scheme for federal civil servants in Apo District of Abuja.
Speaking at the event, PresidentMuhammadu Buhari stated that the scheme aims at providing 5000 affordable housing for workers across the states in the country within the next three years.
“I therefore urge the workers to re-dedicate themselves to service and contribute to good governance. This government is committed to workers welfare”,the president said.
Represented Mustapha Baba Shehu, the minister of state for power, work and housing, President Buhari noted that the project was an initiative of the office of the Head of Service.Read More
http://pulse.ng/local/buhari-fg-targets-5000-houses-for-workers-before-2019-id5330885.html

oduastates:
Commendable but not well thought through.

What I would do is to create an housing project fund and use prosperous cities with serious housing like
Lagos
Ibadan
Port Harcourt
Kano
Abeokuta
Enugu
Kaduna

To expand the size of the fund.
While making profit from these cities, you can then use the same of the returns to take care of lesser cities and states

Standing5:
Who told you that? The FG under Buhari can pay salary has been paying it promptly. If any silly state governor can't pay, then single out the governor(s) and stop directing your fustration towards a performing FG. When these governor were borrowing you future salary to do cocoa yam meal infrastructure nobody complained.
@topic, nice idea there. Most of the capital and factor of production are within Nigeria and that means a project like this will help recycle wealth within the economy instead of shrinking it while on another hand it will also solve housing problems.

GenbIoodykiller:
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nonsense trash
how much do they sell a bag of rice nowadays
performing fg indeed.
buhari is the worst president ever in history of Mankind

Standing5:
After bursting ur no salary claim na this one u wan take new moniker claim abi? How much are they selling it? Oya talk make I own ur äss again.

Standing5:
Please could you explain the bold part in details?

ManirBK:
Over to you wailers !!