Kano State government will soon ‘flag off’ a scheme tagged ‘Teachers Reserved Areas, TRA’
According to a statement from the state governor, Dr. Umar Ganduje, the scheme will be jointly implemented by the state government and the Family Homes Funds and the Federal Mortgage Bank.
The statement stressed that the aim of the scheme is to construct about 5,000 housing units for teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the state.
It added that the first phase of the scheme is aimed at providing decent accommodation for teachers and their families in the state.
This was stated by Saturday night by the Kano state government at a stakeholders’ meeting on the proposed project at the Government House Kano.
“Each of the 36 rural local governments will have 100 housing units while the remaining eight metropolitan local governments will have 150 housing units each,” Governor Ganduje stated.
He continued, “The government would provide the land, auxiliary facilities such as water, electricity and roads while other aspects would be handled by the partners,”
The governor, however, pointed out that participation in the scheme, which would commence next year, is optional and the beneficiaries would pay for the houses in easy installments.
Ganduje also stated that “my administration is concerned about ensuring affordability of and access to houses for the teachers so that they do not become destitute when they retire from active service.”
A technical committee under the Executive Chairman of the State Policy Coordination and Policy Implementation Directorate, Rabi’u Sulaiman Bichi has been set up to fashion out modalities for smooth implementation of the project.
In his remarks, Bichi maintained that the teachers’ housing initiative was to complement the state’s Free and Compulsory Education Policy.
“The last time houses were built for teachers in Kano was during the days of the Native Authority,” he said.
He stressed that the government would tap into available resources at federal financial institutions, to make the dream a reality.
On his part, the representative of Family Homes Funds, Engr. Musa Shu’aibu Mukhtar explained that his agency was willing to work with the government of Kano to provide decent and affordable accommodation for teachers, adding that the project would create thousands of jobs in the state.
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