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Lagos State government will, before the end of this year, construct 25 housing units in three rural communities in the state at a total cost of N75 million.
The three benefiting communities Ajara-Topa, Molajoye and Ikorodu are in Badagry, Epe and Ikorodu local government areas respectively.
Lagos commissioner for rural development, Lanre Balogun who disclosed this in his ministerial press briefing in commemoration of the first one year in office of the Governor Babatunde Fashola administration in the state, said each of the communities would get five 2-bedroom flats at the cost of N5 million per unit.
The housing scheme, according to him, was just part of the long list of projects that had been approved for execution in the rural communities by the state government in 2008.
The commissioner disclosed that the goals and objectives of the Fashola administration on rural administration had been approved as government policy, forming part of the cardinal programmes of the administration.
He also disclosed that his ministry had to conduct “Need Assessment” on the identified communities in the state with the objective of improving and sustaining their economic viability as well as combating the rural-urban drift to the barest minimum.
Answering reporters question as to how a rural dweller could afford a N5 million house, the commissioner explained that the houses would be cons be a twin flat of 2-bedroom flats with all the complements of modern facilities. He added: “We also had at the back of our mind the fact that those who live in the rural communities also have the same flood flowing in the veins of urban dwellers. They also deserve good things of life.”
In addition to the housing scheme, Balogun said his ministry had also done much in the area of infrastructural development in the rural communities, pointing out that halls and centres had been provided for Akessan in Alimosho local government area, Igbodu in Eredo, and Age Laso in Badagry.
All these, he said, were delivered between May and December 2007, adding that the halls and centres had multi-purpose facilitities that could be used for skill acquisition, health services, recreational activities and other socio-economic activities that would create the desired harmonisation and communal living in the rural communities
The three benefiting communities Ajara-Topa, Molajoye and Ikorodu are in Badagry, Epe and Ikorodu local government areas respectively.
Lagos commissioner for rural development, Lanre Balogun who disclosed this in his ministerial press briefing in commemoration of the first one year in office of the Governor Babatunde Fashola administration in the state, said each of the communities would get five 2-bedroom flats at the cost of N5 million per unit.
The housing scheme, according to him, was just part of the long list of projects that had been approved for execution in the rural communities by the state government in 2008.
The commissioner disclosed that the goals and objectives of the Fashola administration on rural administration had been approved as government policy, forming part of the cardinal programmes of the administration.
He also disclosed that his ministry had to conduct “Need Assessment” on the identified communities in the state with the objective of improving and sustaining their economic viability as well as combating the rural-urban drift to the barest minimum.
Answering reporters question as to how a rural dweller could afford a N5 million house, the commissioner explained that the houses would be cons be a twin flat of 2-bedroom flats with all the complements of modern facilities. He added: “We also had at the back of our mind the fact that those who live in the rural communities also have the same flood flowing in the veins of urban dwellers. They also deserve good things of life.”
In addition to the housing scheme, Balogun said his ministry had also done much in the area of infrastructural development in the rural communities, pointing out that halls and centres had been provided for Akessan in Alimosho local government area, Igbodu in Eredo, and Age Laso in Badagry.
All these, he said, were delivered between May and December 2007, adding that the halls and centres had multi-purpose facilitities that could be used for skill acquisition, health services, recreational activities and other socio-economic activities that would create the desired harmonisation and communal living in the rural communities
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