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RSG Celebrates World Habitat Day

The Rivers State Government has restated its determination to produce a template for quality living for the people of the state.
The State Commissioner for Urban Development Physical Planning, Hon. Chinyere Igwe, dropped this hint at an event organized by the Ministry to mark this year’s World Habitat Day (WHD), Monday in Port Harcourt.
According to the Commissioner, the template which is expected to meet international best practices in collaboration with international partners will cover rural and urban areas in Ahoada, Elele, degema, Bori and Port Harcourt City in line with the NEW Rivers Vision of the Wike-led administration.
Igwe said in accordance with this year’s theme; Housing at the Centre, the government was poised to eliminate slum dwelling and develop housing with in the mist of basic infrastructures.
As part of the event, the Commissioner led a team of staff of the Ministry, the newly inaugurated Urban Guard, and newsmen to inspect shanties and Water Fronts at IIoabuchi, Andoni and Eagle Island, among others mapped out by the State for development.
Delivering a paper on the theme, a lecturer at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Dr. Obinna, Victor listed some of the challenges facing slum dwellers as, poverty, high accommodation costs, forceful evictions and demolitions and recommended that government should find a means of controlling Landlords with a view to lowering housing cost.
The event was attended by commissioners, Permanent Secretaries and Directors as well as stakeholders in the built industry.
Tonye Nria-Dappa