Workers Want NLC Housing Scheme In States

Civil servants in the Fed
eral Capital Territory (FCT) have urged the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to extend the workers housing scheme to other states of the federation.
The public officers have also urged  the NLC  leadership to also work out similar arrangements with state governments across the country on how the scheme can be extended to their respective states.
A civil servant in the FCT, Mrs  Yemi Muyiwa, in her submission said  that the NLC workers housing scheme is a well though-tout scheme, pointing out that such  will have more impact when it is extended to other states of the country.
She said “the FCTA has done  well in earmarking a district for the housing scheme, but I will  advise the NLC  to also work out similar arrangements with the state governments across the country to make the scheme have more impact in the country”.
Another civil servant, Mr. Cletus Obi said that the idea of the housing scheme was a good one, and will assist most average workers in the country to own their own houses before their retirement, if such scheme is extended to other states.
He said “I will however advise both the FCTA and labour to closely monitor the contractor to ensure that the project is not abandoned as experienced in the past.”
On his part, Mr. Celestine Buba, a construction worker, also commended the initiative and suggested that it should also be  extended to workers in the private sector.
He said “ Initiatives like this have been seen in the past, but it is only the government workers that benefit from the housing scheme, it should also  include workers in the private sector, after all we are all Nigerian workers.”
It would be recalled  that a joint development agreement for workers housing estate was signed  in Abuja  between the FCT, NLC and Good Homes Development Company Limited.