Housing Show: Firm Sets Up Recommendations Implementation Team, Soon

The organiser of the just
concluded 10th Abuja Housing Show (AHS), FESADEB Communications Ltd., says it will set up an Action Team to ensure that government implements all recommendations reached at the event.
The Managing Director of the media organisation, Mr Festus Adebayo, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
The 10th Abuja Housing Show and Construction Industry Exhibition was convened by FESADEB Communication Ltd , the producer of Housing Development Programmes on AIT, Ray Power, NTA and online.
Adebayo said that the organisation was committed to ensuring that the issues discussed would be followed up in order to bridge the gap in the housing and construction industry.
Our correspondent reports that the three-day show and exhibition, which deliberated much on ways to solve the issues of affordable housing in Nigeria, recorded huge participants from within and outside the country.
The housing expert said that the 2016 AHS would not be a talk show where recommendations would not be implemented.
He said the uniqueness of the show was the establishment of the action team which would see to its implementation.
“Abuja housing show is a private sector driven platform because of that we are very committed and adamant in ensuring that efforts put in the discussion would be followed up to the end.
“We are setting up an action team that will follow up letter to letter with the Senate and the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.
“We are not going to talk to them on what they want to hear but we are going to be talking to them on what the public wants to hear therefore we will remain neutral and stand on the side of Nigerians.
“We are going to forward all our letters of the communiqué to the presidency and all other organisations that are concerned for the implementation,’’ Adebayo said.
He explained that the show was aimed at promoting home ownership and providing affordable housing for Nigerians, adding that there are houses but their affordability was not there.
He said that in solving the housing deficit of 17 million, the issue of design and building technology should also be put into consideration.
“You cannot talk of solving the housing deficit of 17 million without also looking at the building technology; we cannot use concrete, cement and block to solve the problem of housing deficit of 17 million.
“We need something that we can use that is faster, that is of quality and of standard, safer in cost and time,’’ he said.
He further described the show as a platform to promote availability and affordable housing for low income earners.
Adebayo said that the show recorded a huge success as over 18 states participated, including commissioners and state governors.
On unoccupied buildings in Abuja, he said that the show have recommended to the government that at the point of approval, conditions should be given to estate developers.