By Stanley Onyekwere
The FCT Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola has declared that various categories of affordable housing estates will soon begin to spring up in Abuja, the nation’s capital city, following practical steps taken by the FCT Administration.
Adesola, who made this assertion, when he visited Sunrise Estate Development in Asokoro District, last Friday, reiterated the government’s commitment to provide FCT residents and Nigerians at large, adequate affordable and decent houses they can proudly call their own.
This was contained in a statement from Tony Odey, the Press Secretary to FCT Permanent Secretary, which was made available to PeoplesDaily.
According to the statement, the Permanent Secretary noted that the FCT Land Swap Programme, which the Federal Executive Council (FEC) recently gave approval for resumption of full implementation is among other numerous initiatives the FCT Administration has embarked upon to ensure that many low income housing estates comes onboard in the Territory.
It added that to ensure that owners of the various houses which will soon come onboard are spared from spending huge sum of money on maintenance, the Permanent Secretary urged estate developers to incorporate local contents in terms of the building materials which will be used for construction.
Adesola equally explained that under the FCT Land Swap initiative, the private sectors and Nigerian citizens of all categories will have access to land encased in the essential urban infrastructure to build their homes.
He therefore, charged the FCT Department of Development Control to be alive to its responsibility by ensuring that all estate developers in territory abide strictly on the approved development plan.
Earlier, the Executive Director of Sunrise Estate Development Ltd, Jack Farah revealed that construction work on Phase 2 of Sunrise Estate, which is essentially mass housing will soon commence and will be completed within the next one year.
Farah, who assured FCT residents that the Phase 2 of the estate will address their housing needs, urged them to take advantage of the safe, scenic, high quality construction standards and scrupulous codes offers by the estate.
