Reps to Provide Affordable Housing for Nigerians
The House of Representatives Committee on Housing and Habitat has expressed readiness to create a radical housing agenda and legislation to tackle the housing deficit in Nigeria.
The committee also revealed that Nigerians were anticipating the legislature that would provide affordable housing on approved conditions.
This was disclosed by the Chairman of the committee, Aminu Kurfi, during the inauguration of the committee in Abuja on Monday.
“In our endeavour to achieve these noble expectations, let me humbly notify my honourable colleagues on the necessity to imbibe the culture of effective legislation, active partnership, efficient collaboration, relevant responsive capacity building, mutual collective responsibility, open door policy, and critical oversight functions.
“I call on us to deeply reflect on each of these managerial ethos and entrench them in our deep-seated minds to serve as our guiding principles in all our actions. We should strive to work as a team and engage our oversight partners not as administrative or political adversaries, but rather as professional colleagues and partners in progress.
“The common bonds that unite us with our partners in the oversight domains are denominated in our shared basic responsibility to serve our homeless citizens. Therefore, what unites us far outweighs the gimmicks of administrative or legislative differences.
“For these reasons and many others known to you, we must foster a virile spirit of unity of purpose between us and our partners, and we shall do so with a great sense of relative independence as unique legislators,” he said.
The chairman then called for useful ideas that could aid the committee in achieving its goals.
