By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
The Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mu’azu Sambo said there is need to revisit and reform the Land Use Act because the Act is not helping housing development.
Sambo made this known yesterday when he paid a visit to the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) head office in Abuja.
He explained that the Land Use Act is a challenge because under the Land Use Act, all land are under the administration of respective state governments.
“That means we are at the mercy of the various state government for us to get land because you cannot build a house on water, houses are build on land. And those lands must have tittles. We also know that there other things that associated with those tittles from the beginning to end of those process.
“That is why I was saying that there is need for us to look again at the Land Use Act and make it easy. The Act is not helping housing development.
“We can have reforms there are various reforms that we have been trying in other jurisdictions and it has work successfully.Easy access to land will lead to ease access and provision of houses,” said Sambo.
He however, advised the federal housing authority (FHA) to provide papers that we can use to canvas for a return to appropriation why because the FHA was established in order to carter for a particular segment of society and do not forget that president Buhari nine point priority areas include social inclusion.
In his welcome address, the managing director, FHA senator Gbenga Ashafa said that when the current management under his supervision took over in 2020, the authority was in a state of limbo with it’s capacity to deliver on its mandate at the lowest but this management took up the mantle to change the narrative for the better.
