Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, has inaugurated 300 units of low-cost houses and two blocks of shopping complex for the use of Internally Displaced Persons as they return to normal life from effects of Boko Haram insurgency.
The units of two-bedroom semi-detached houses are sited at Ngamdu, a town in Kaga Local Government Area of the state.
At a brief ceremony on Friday, Zulum presented allocation letters of houses to some of the beneficiaries.
The governor also inaugurated a 1.8kilometre township road, a shopping complex with 30 shops, and a renovated and furnished Government Lodge, sited at Benisheik, headquarters of Kaga Local Government Area.
Zulum, in his address, recalled that in 2019, the Borno State Government signed an agreement with Family Homes, a private mass housing developer, for the provision of 3,200 low-cost houses in Borno State, adding that a substantial number of the houses had now been delivered.
He said Family Homes had promised to soon commence the construction of 1,000 houses for civil servants, which would be offered to low-income workers to enable them to acquire homes.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Mustapha Gubio, under whose ministry the projects were executed, said that the largest beneficiaries of the houses were victims of displacement by Boko Haram.
He commended the team, led by Zulum’s Adviser on Projects Monitoring and Evaluation, Lawan Wakilbe, which monitored the housing project.
The Managing Director of Family Homes, Mr Femi Adewale, in his goodwill message, commended Zulum’s sound leadership, which led to the actualisation of the partnership.
Source: Punch NG
