Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Bello has flagged off the construction of over 404 mass housing units, in Abuja Metropolitan Council (AMMC) estate, Wasa area of the territory.
At the groundbreaking ceremony, Bello assured that the administration would support the project in terms of infrastructure development. He said the initiative was in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda to abridged the housing deficit in the country.
“We will also support other corporative if they are ready and willing also to provide housing because with the total staff strength of over twenty-seven thousand in the FCT, you will agree with me that so many of our compatriots will desire to have their own houses.
“And this is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda in trying to provide houses so that the housing deficit in the country will be bridged,” Muhammed stated.
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The Minister commended the participants over their commitment and speedy commencement of the project.
Earlier in his opening remarks, the president of the corporative, Mohammed Hamisu, appealed to the FCT administration to come in fully in the provision of infrastructure to the site.
“We are not oblivious of the budgetary constraints in the national economy. However, it is worthy to state that the AMMC staff corporative housing project is a direct response to the call for cooperative and public partnership in the provision of staffs cooperative and public partnership in the provision of staff housing accommodation in the FCT,” Hamisu stressed.
The land space is estimated at about 4.2 hectares, comprising of 224 units of one bedroom, two bedroom blocks of 112 flats and 68 three-bedroom terraces.
