The Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, has issued all developers of renewed Hope housing estates and cities in the thirteen locations nationwide to maintain high building standards and to provide high -quality work.
Dangiwa emphasized that the construction must be based on contractual conditions to ensure durability, and said that he would not hesitate to revoke the contract for inferior work.
“After the renewed Hope agenda of Mr President, we are very striving to ensure that we build we build and that the infrastructure are of good quality. For all developers and contractors in our renewed Hope Housing Projects, I want you to know that we will not tolerate a work of poor quality from a developer or contractor. If we identify inferior work at one of the project locations, we will first be torn down the structure and the contractor has to rebuild according to Standard or we completely revoke the contract, ”he warned.
The minister spoke on Friday when he spoke the officials of the ministry, including Foreign Minister Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, the permanent, Dr. Shuaib Belgore and some directors of the Ministry In the inspection of the ongoing construction work of the 1,500 and 500 housing unit that were built in Kano, which were built through public -private partners, and the budget provision and 500 budget deployments and 500 budget deployment.
“We are impressed by the employment business in the 1,500 housing unit, which we create here in Kano about a public private partnership (PPP) with a consortium of developers under the direction of Continental Civil Engineering. I recommend it for the speed and the workforce you have mobilized. For the 500-house ends, Hope City renewed, which we finance as part of the supplementary budget of 2023, the project does not move at the pace we expect, and we want the developers to increase things so that we can fill out and commissions, ”he said.
On the timeline he said: “We also want the developers to stick to the timeline and complete within two to three months
Accordingly, he found that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, with the new hope of his excellence, President Bola Tinubu, is very special with regard to the Nigerian community for money, so the government will not compromise on standard.
He also explained the economic effects of housing buildings, including the creation of workplaces for bricklayers, workers, craftsmen, food sellers, blocks and other building materials, and said that the value chain effects of the construction work were significant and have a positive economic effects.
“We are making serious progress in our offer to realize President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for living space and urban development. Our plan is to build seven renewed hope cities in every geo-political zone and FCT. We currently took 2,000 units in Kano, 3,112 units in FCT and 2,000 in Lagos, while other locations are put into operation. We also have construction work at Twelve (12) for renewed Hope Estates 250 residential units per two per geopolitical zone, ”said Dangiwa.
The minister also instructed the ministry of the federal controller and assigned employees in order to ensure close monitoring of the work and the escalation of all quality injuries for measures and at the same time warn in order not to compromise their offices.