Akwa Ibom Govt partners FHA on affordable housing
… donates 50 hectares of land for project take-off
Akwa Ibom State Government and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) have sealed a new partnership on the Diaspora Housing Project.
The project which is an initiative of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Federal Government is aimed at providing affordable housing for civil servants in the country with flexible payment plan.
Demonstrating commitment to the partnership, the State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, announced a donation of fifty hectares of land, with a promise of other requisite support, as counterpart facilitation for the project.
Speaking during a courtesy visit by a delegation from FHA led by its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Hon. Oyetunde Ojo, at Government House, Uyo, the Governor said, “
I want to assure you sir that we will work together. We have already allocated a piece of land and the Commissioner for Lands will make it available to you.
“Talking about the economic benefits such as creating employment, and all the other areas that you have talked about, we will give you all the necessary support for the benefit of our people,” he said.
Commending the all-inclusive leadership style of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Eno lauded the FHA helmsman for taking steps to collaborate and ensure synergy between the federal agency and governments of the respective states proposed for the project
This, he said, was similar to the Akwa Ibom approach, where the government does not embark on any project without engaging the stakeholders to know the actual community needs per time, expressing hope that other federal agencies, like the NDDC, would take a cue from the disposition of the FHA.
He reiterated his commitment to supporting and working in collaboration with the President Tinubu-led federal government for the general good of the people, irrespective of their different political affiliations.
“We want to make our people happy and I think that is why God sent us here. We can show to our people that our brother is up there and is helping to bring things back home and I thank Mr. President for being a father to all.
“For us in Akwa Ibom, we will work with him because he is doing his very best. I don’t have to be in APC to support him. So I make it very clear, I am a member of the PDP, but I will support Mr. President always,” Governor Eno affirmed.
In his earlier presentation, Hon. Oyetunde Ojo, said housing was a critical component of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government and thanked the Akwa Ibom State Governor for readily supporting FHA’s Diaspora City project with land donation which, he stressed, was a priority requirement for the project.
According to him, besides coming to solicit for land, the FHA under his watch will be willing to collaborate with the state government in the areas of design, the actual building and ensuring off-takers for houses, while assuring of optimal and judicious utilisation of the allocated land.
