House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing to complete the abandoned Federal Housing Estate at Eziama in Isiala Mbano Local Government of Imo State. It also called on the ministry to rehabilitate the dilapidated access roads at the Federal Low Cost Housing Estate at Ubaha, Okigwe Local Government and Umuelemai in Isiala Mbano Local Government

The House mandated the committees on housing and works to ensure the provision of funds for completion of the housing state and rehabilitation of dilapidated access roads in the 2022 budget. The Committee on Legislative Compliance was also mandated to ensure compliance. This followed a motion by Miriam Onuoha.

The House noted that public housing programmes have been criticised for failing to generate housing projects with acceptable distribution and acquisition mechanisms to meet housing demands, particularly by low-income earners.

It recalled that through the National Development Plan, a National Housing Programme was launched to deliver housing units across the country under which the Federal Housing Estate, Eziama and Umuelemai Isiala Mbano Local Government and Federal Low Cost Housing Estate Ubaha, Okigwe Local Government Area were conceived.

Source: The Nation