The Federal Capital Territory Administration has allocated lands to the National Agricultural Seeds Council and the Abuja Enterprises Agency Cooperative Society for the construction of low-cost houses for their staff.
The Millard Fuller Foundation and the Nigeria Police Cooperative Society had earlier been allocated lands in the FCTA’s Social and Affordable Housing Programme aimed at addressing the dearth of low-cost houses in the territory.
The Minister of State for the FCT, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, on Friday presented the affordable housing offer letters to the Director of National Agricultural Seeds Council, Samuel Anuforo, and the Head of Rural and Community Development of Abuja Enterprises Agency, Aisha Ibrahim Dasoki.
The ceremony was witnessed by the Permanent Secretary in the FCT, Engineer John Obinna Chukwu; the Director of Economic Planning, Research and Statistics in FCTA, Alhaji Isa Ari Mohammed; the Managing Director of Abuja Enterprises Agency, Aisha Abubakar; and senior officials of FCTA; the National Agricultural Seeds Council; and Abuja Enterprises Agency.
The minister stated that the Wasa District in Abuja Municipal Area Council and Mamusa District in Kuje Area Council were the designated areas for the social and affordable housing scheme of the Administration.
Akinjide said: “The beneficiaries of the FCT Administration’s affordable housing scheme are expected to develop the land by building affordable houses while the Administration will provide the land and infrastructure. The FCTA is giving adequate attention to the provision of infrastructure in the two sites – Wasa and Mamusa Districts.
“The Administration is also stepping up the development of the area councils and satellite towns where 80 per cent of the people who work in the city live. This is at the heart of the FCTA’s programmes. We require the support of the National Assembly in the execution of the projects and programmes of the Administration.”
Chukwu, who expressed great hope for the civil servants and common man in the FCT, warned beneficiaries of the affordable housing programme not to sell the houses at exorbitant prices to their staff and the public.
Chukwu said: “We are going to monitor the project and support the developers to realise the objective of the programme. The houses, when completed, should be made affordable to the staff and the public.
“This is a new beginning in the FCT and it provides great hope for the civil servants and the common man. It is a great joy to be part of this memorable programme.”
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