The continent’s biggest housing news platform, africahousingnews.com has named the Governors of Kaduna and Borno States as its Housing Friendly Governors of the Year.
The widely read housing news hub says the award is in recognition of the giant strides of the two governors in the provision of affordable housing for their citizens and their involvement of the private sector in ensuring a huge reduction of the housing deficit in the country.
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It will be recalled that Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State and Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State were adjudged by real estate industry watchers to have performed well in the delivery of affordable housing in their states in 2019.
Some of El-Rufai’s giant strides in the housing sector includes performing the ground breaking for a 600 mass housing units in Kaduna state.
The governor, while laying the blocks at the Kaduna Millennium City, said the move is to reduce housing deficit, hence the need for the low and medium housing projects.
For the year 2020, the Kaduna State Government has already earmarked N3 billion for the construction of houses for low income earners and N1 billion as mortgage support.
For his Borno State counterpart, the Internally Displaced Persons will forever be in his debt for his role in rebuilding several villages destroyed by the Boko Haram terrorists in his capacity first as the Commissioner of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement from 2015 to 2018.
When he became governor in 2019, Zulum approved the sale of public estates to owner occupiers as well as inaugurating a high powered committee for the construction of 500 housing units in Maiduguri.
The governor explained also that his administration is determined to ensure comfortable and affordable houses to the citizenry.
His administration also entered into an arrangement with Family Homes Nigeria Ltd. for the take-off of 1,700 urban housing and 3,200 rural housing in the state. This would be executed on public-private partnerships basis.
He also said that his administration will ensure sustainable urban development through legislation that would encompass policy coordination, removing inappropriate building regulations, encouraging innovation, maintenance and upgrades of the existing housing properties and informal settlements among others.
His laudable efforts in the sector didn’t end there as Zulum also pledged to construct housing estates to resettle victims of flood in Ngamdu in 2019 while laying foundation stone for over 1000 housing estates in Ajiri and Mafa communities among others to resettle IDPs affected by the insurgency.
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