Worried by the inability of over 250 allottees of Iriebe Housing Estate to pay their mortgage, the Rivers State Housing and Property Development Authority (RSHPDA) says arrangements have been concluded to revoke the allocation of defaulters occupants of the estate, who fail to meet up their payment within 30 days starting from today.
The General Manager of the RSHPDA, Arch Iyerefa S. Cookey-Gam stated this while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, Thursday on the activities of the agency on the management of Iriebe Housing Estate and other estates under their management in the state.
Arch Cookey-Gam averred that many allottees of Iriebe were not diligent with the payment of their mortgage, adding that such situation contravened the agreement entered by the allottees both the mortgage and the sale of the property.
According to him, the authority intends to implement without further delay the terms of sale and mortgage by cancelling the allocation of defaulters, adding that once any allocation cancelled, such property, he said, would be made available to other interested state workers or members of the public.
He used the opportunity to advise all affected allottees of Iriebe Housing Estate to urgently visit the agency and reconcile their account and settle all outstanding and due payment and mortgages as failure to do so would result in outright cancellation of the allocation and recovery of the property of the expiration of the 30 days notice.
“Retired public servants who have an irrevocable standing payment order deposited with the office of the Accountant-General through the authority and are receiving their pensions and or have received their terminal benefits without remitting all balances pending to the authority shall have their payment deducted from their monthly pension, those who are willing to pay without passing the process are encouraged to do so”, he added.
“All retired public servant who do not have irrevocable standing payment order deposited with the authority but have received their terminal benefit shall lose their allocation at the expiration of the 30 days notice given”, he stated.
The General Manager of RSHPDA also used the opportunity to warn allottees and occupants of Elekahia, Rumuibekwe, Rumuobiakani, Presidential Phase I & II, Ndoki, Aggrey, Marine Base and Iriebe Housing Estates who engage in the unwholesome act of carrying out illegal development by converting residential houses to commercial and industrial houses without the approval of the agency to desist forthwith or face the sanction of the authority.
He disclosed that the unwholesome activities was depleting the estates and urged those who engaged on the on-going activities to ensure that such illegal developments were removed within 30 days starting from today as the authority, he said, would no longer tolerate such act again.