Enugu extends housing scheme to council workers

AS part of the State’s move to enhance the living standard of workers, Enugu authorities have approved extension of its housing scheme programme to workers in the local government areas.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State who spoke when the management of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria(FMBN), paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Enugu has affirmed his readiness to engage the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria(FMBN), in a strategic partnership to actualize his administration’s drive to provide houses to the state’s workers.

The governor assured that the engagement strategic partnership with the bank would take the state to the next level in the housing sector.

The FMBN team, led by its Managing Director, Mr. Gimba Ya’ukuma informed the governor that the management were in Enugu to express their appreciation to the governor for sponsoring 100 housing units for 100 junior workers in the state through the bank.

He called on other states in the country to emulate Governor Ugwuanyi’s gesture to the workers. Ya’ukumo added that the bank had developed affordable and accessible housing estates in the state worth billions of naira to ease accommodation challenges of the people.

He added that the bank has more housing programmes to help workers own
their houses. “We will also partner with the people living outside Nigeria but want to own houses to settle in the country, actualize their objectives”.

In a related development, Enugu State Economic Planning Commission has resolved to harmonize the issue of taxation in the state to ensure that the allegation of multiple taxation becomes a thing of the past in the state