FHA to Build 6,009 Homes at N68 Billion

Nasir Imam

15 July 2011

The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has said it will build a total of 6,009 housing units in 10 states across the six geo-political zones under its public private partnership programme.

Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Authority, Arc Terver Gemade who announced this in Abuja said 70 housing units would be built at Apo, in the Gudu district of Abuja while 104 units would be built in Awka, Anambra State.

Makurdi, Benue State and Gombe, Gombe State would have 80 units each.

Gemade, who spoke to reporters during a routine project inspection visit to Lugbe Estate in the Federal Capital, said the Authority was determined to take its activities to all parts of the country.

The projects, to cost about N68 billion on completion, was approved by the Board of the Authority in its determination to accelerate the delivery of affordable housing nationwide.

Twenty-seven private sector operators are participating in the housing projects scheduled to take off immediately and which would be completed within 18 to 24 months.

The benefitting states are: Anambra (1,023 units), Bayelsa (1,740 units), Benue (200 units), Cross River (506 units) and Ekiti (720 units).

Others are Gombe (280 units), Kaduna (330 units), Lagos (638 units), Osun (292 units) and Taraba (280 units).

Public Private Partnership is one of the eight delivery models adopted by the Authority in 2009 when the new Management headed by Arc. Terver Gemade assumed office.

The FHA first embarked on a PPP project in 2002 which delivered a total of 651 housing units in Gwarinpa II Estate, Abuja.

Similar projects to deliver 1,455 housing units in Apo, Abuja and 11,450 units at Auta Balefi, Nasarawa State are on-going.

The Authority is also to build about 300 new housing units in Abuja and three other locations across the country by direct construction.

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