By Ola Kay
The Lagos State Government has expressed readiness of its commitment to collaborate in delivering affordable housing for residents of the state and Nigerians in the Diaspora.
Governor State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu revealed this when the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, Honourable Oyetunde Ojo, lef a courtesy visit of the management of FHA to the Governor on at the Lagos House, Marina, recently.
Sanwo-Olu stressed that the vision of the Federal Housing Authority is in tandem with the objective of the Lagos State Government to meet the housing needs for different strata in the state.
He reminded his guests that his administration had in the last four and half years commissioned 18 different housing estate projects spread across different parts of the state, with the aim of mitigating housing deficits in Lagos State.
Sanwo-Olu said: “The Federal Housing Authority is known for opening new areas, new cities and corridors.
“We can see from your (Hon. Oyetunji Ojo) drive and move in the last couple of weeks that indeed, you want to make a positive impact in your tenure.
“For us in Lagos, we know what the deficits are and are open for collaboration. In the last four and half years that we came into government, we have commissioned about 18 different housing estate projects in various numbers in different parts of the State.
“The citizens want shelter and we have been very strategic and think out of the box to create housing solutions that would meet the needs of the citizens.
“Your (FHA) vision sits with our objective which is to be able to provide housing needs for various strata of the economy. We can collaborate. There are a lot of needs for Lagosians that we can collaborate on. Land is our oil in Lagos State.”
The governor pledged to support the FHA with land and tasked the federal agency to hit the ground running once an approval is granted.
Earlier in his remark, the MD/CEO, FHA, Hon. Oyetunde Ojo, said that affordable housing for Nigerians is pivotal to the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
He noted that Lagos is ahead in housing models in West Africa.
He said: “We want to learn and that is why we need the synergy with the Lagos State Government. President Tinubu must flag-off and commission FHA housing projects in Lagos State.
“We want people abroad to be secured in buying properties so that when they pay by installments with the digitalisation FHA is about to do in collaboration with the Diaspora Commission and Ministry of Tourism and the Lagos State Government, our people abroad will be safe.
We want a place where we will partner and people overseas would be very confident .”
He saluted Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration for its meaningful development in key sectors of the economy, among which include the Blue and Red Rail lines and the Lekki – Epe Expressway,the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, among others.
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