TUC Partners Firm On Houses For Members

The national
leadership of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has partnered a private firm of developer, Rock of Ages Properties Ltd, Subsidiary of Chicason Group to build 100,000 housing units for its members in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
In a statement issued by the union’s national secretariat and signed by the union’s National President, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama said the union took the decision in a bid to reduce housing deficit faced by members of the organised labour in the country.
He said the project when completed would provide affordable housing to workers and drastically reduce over 17 million housing deficits in Nigeria presently.
The union boss said that the first phase of the 100,000 units, which is about 20,000 housing units, would be completed before the end of this year.
Kaigama said the union embarked on the project as a priority because the Nigerian workers had continued to suffer under the hardship of Shylock landlords, stressing that the union’s intention of embarking on the housing project was to curtail the excesses of such landlords.
He said, “we have more than 17 million housing deficits in the country and the worst-hit people are the Nigerian workers,” stressing that Nigerian workers had taken their destinies in their hands through the provision of these affordable houses for the workers.
The union leader said the private developer was set to deliver within the agreed period the first phase of 20,000 housing units.
Philip Okparaji