Gombe Govt Set to Construct 1000 Affordable Housing Units 

Gombe Govt Set to Construct 1000 Affordable Housing Units 

The Gombe State Government has approved the acquisition of the sum of Five Billion naira loan for the construction of one thousand housing units in the State. 

Commissioner for information and Culture, Julius Lepez made the disclosure recently. 

The loan, he said, is to be secured from the Family Housing Fund, famous for giving credit facilities to States across the country to address their housing deficit. 

Lepez said that Council equally deliberated on land administration and master plan of Gombe metropolis where it noted that the planned integration of customary land title owners into Government layouts was to enable the administration of Governor Muhammadu Yahaya provide social amenities to the people without recourse to the needless payment of compensation each time Government wants to construct road networks or carry out other developmental projects.

Julius Lepes told journalists recently that the Council also received an assessment report on the Billiri crisis detailing the number of property destroyed and value attached to it.

He added that findings by the assessment committee on the crisis indicated that 41 houses were affected which are valued at Ninety four million six hundred thousand six hundred and sixty six naira.

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The Commissioner said that 401 business premises were affected out of which  335 shops are owned by individuals while 66 belong to the Billiri Local Government Area, all valued at Three hundred and Eighty three million, One hundred and Forty eight thousand One hundred and thirty five naira. (N385,148,135)

The commissioner added that 33 worship centres were either burnt down or vandalised, valued at Thirty three million One hundred and Twenty nine thousand Six hundred and sixty seven naira (33,129,667)

Other properties affected, as enumerated by Julius Ishaya Lapes, include motor vehicles, motorcycles orchards and animals which were either destroyed, missing or stolen valued at Thirty one million Four hundred and Eighty thousand.(31,480,000)

The Commissioner of information and culture revealed that the totality of property destroyed as valued by the assessment committee stood at five hundred and Forty two million, three hundred and fifty eight thousand Four hundred and sixty eight naira(N542,358,468).

He said in lieu of the assessment, Council has approved the payment of compensation to individuals who lost loved ones and properties, saying a committee has been set up to draw out modalities for the assistance. 

Gombe Govt Set to Construct 1000 Affordable Housing Units