The federal government has said about 10, 000 units of houses would be built within the first phase of President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda on housing in the Federal Capital Territory.
Minister of housing and urban development, Arc. Ahmed Dangiwa, stated this while inspecting houses built by the ministry and agencies under the ministry in Abuja.
Dangiwa at one of the sites where he was inspecting about 1,250 units of houses sponsored by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria at Dei-dei said over 40, 000 units of flats in the first phase of the plan would be built nationwide and 10, 000 units of affordable houses would be provided for low, middle and high income earners within the FCT.
He warned contractors who abandoned their projects to move back to site or risk losing their jobs and advised those having issues with review of their contracts to engage the FMBN and discuss their challenges.
“Our plan within this first phase is that over 40, 000 units of affordable houses will be built, we are already on the supplementary budget, within a couple of weeks we will start the ground breaking of some of the houses. We intend to construct cities, six mega cities called the Renewed Hope Cities around the country and the ministerial pilot houses. We are engaging in private partnership with some of the developers who will provide funds and we will provide the enabling environment for those projects.
“We are therefore telling the contractors that we will no more tolerate any abandoned project. We intend to recoup the investment done by the government earlier on. We are inviting them to go back to site. Some of the contractors and developers don’t have the managerial/financial capacity to handle some of these projects; these are some of the problems we will edge out and then bring in those that are serious for the construction to take off at the end of the year. We want to ensure that Nigerians are better for it because there are millions of Nigerians that need housing,” he said.
