NLC kicks over delay in housing project with Kriston-Lally

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has raised concern over the long delay in the delivery of the first set of housing units under the NLC-Kriston-Lally housing project designed to deliver houses to Nigerian workers at affordable prices.

Abdulwaheed Omar, the president of the NLC, in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday, also raised an alarm over an alleged existence of another bank account other than the one NLC and Kriston-Lally agreed to, to which subscribers to the housing project were advised to make payments, a development the congress described as worrisome.

The NLC said in the statement “in the bid to promote worker’s welfare, the congress went into understanding with a number of developers to provide affordable housing for workers. One of such understanding was with Kriston-Lally, with whom congress signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

“Based on this, and subsequent advertisement, a large number of workers subscribed to the project. Under the MoU, Kriston-Lally was to build specified housing types at agreed prices. The funding of the project was to be provided by financiers whom Kriston-Lally had identified from abroad. The NLC was on its part to ensure that there were off-takers of the housing units by mobilising workers to subscribe by paying ten percent of the price of desired house type.”