The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is set to fulfill one of its major election campaign promises to Nigerians with an announcement scheduled for next week Monday.
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola
Punch Newspaper reports President Muhammadu Buhari is bracing up for announcement of an affordable housing scheme to assist the Nigerian masses which is an integral part of the ruling All Progressives Congress manifesto.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, will make the plan public on behalf of the government at the Affordable Housing Summit 2016 being put together by the ministry in partnership with German Development Cooperation.
A member of the summit’s Technical Working Group, Mrs. Eucharia Alozie, disclosed this to journalists in Abuja.
Alozie who is the ministry’s Head of Public Private Partnership Unit was joined at the briefing by the Principal Consultant of Value Chain Project Consultants Limited, Dr. Joshua Egbagbe and the Leader of the Value Chain Unit of GIZ, Mr. Christoph Pannhausen.
“The minister will be unveiling the Federal Government housing plan to the public during the summit. We will also produce blueprint that will be implemented very soon,” she said.
She explained that the summit would serve as a platform where the public and private sectors would share ideas and proffer sustainable strategic framework for housing delivery in Nigeria.
She said the ministry would use the opportunity of the summit to identify the challenges facing the sector and proffer solutions.