Housing: Minister Makes Case For Abuja Indigenes

The Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsudeen Usman, has
called on the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) to integrate Abuja indigenes into
its housing programmes instead of resettling them elsewhere.

Usman made the call on Saturday in Abuja during an
inspection tour of the Kado FHA housing scheme, which is part of the ongoing
National Good Governance Tour of the FCT.

He said that incorporating them into the system should be
the best option instead of sending them out and compensating and resettling
them.

“We were privileged to inspect some urban development
renewer projects in Lebanon and we saw what they have done, please don’t send
them away,’’ the minister said.

Also speaking, Mr Labaran Maku, Minister of Information,
said that the plan of Abuja was to build houses for low income earners not
expensive ones as we have in the FCT.

He urged the FHA to build social houses for the low income
earners because “that is part of the plans of Mr President for Nigerians’’.

Earlier, the Managing Director of FHA, Mr Terver Gemade,
said that the 108 housing units in Kado comprised 10 different types, such as
bungalows, duplexes, among others.

He said that all the housing units were sold out and people
had occupied them.