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FG plans
affordable housing for Nigerians — Matazu
The
Federal Government plans to formulate a police on affordable housing
for Nigerians.
Alhaji Garba Matazu, the Chairman, House of Representatives
Committee on Housing and Urban Development, announced this today in
Abuja.
He told newsmen that the policy would focus on a public/ private
arrangement, to solve Nigeria’s housing need.
Matazu said the policy would revolve around the seven point agenda
of the present administration, to make Nigeria among the top 10
countries in the world, by 2020.
“The policy will be anchored on the recommendation of the committee
set up by President Umar Yar’Adua on land reform and housing .’’
Matazu said the president had endorsed all the recommendations of
the committee, headed by Mrs. Halima Alao, the Minister of Housing
and Environment.
He said part of the recommendations included an overhaul of the
Federal Mortgage Bank, to make it responsive to the yearning of the
people.
Matazu assured Nigerians that the National Assembly would play its
role in actualising government’s dream to provide affordable housing
to Nigerians.
“We at the National Assembly, have pledged to do our part in
ensuring the realisation of government plan to provide affordable
housing for Nigerians, every where in the country,’’ he said.
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