The Managing Director, North East Development Commission, Mohammed Alkali, says the Federal Government has concluded the construction of 1,000 housing units as part of its resettlement efforts for millions of persons displaced by the 13-year insurgency in Nigeria’s Northeast.
Alkali said this in Abuja on Thursday while addressing State House Correspondents at the 50th Session of the State House Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team
He said the1000 houses were built in Ngwom, Borno, with plans to build 500 housing units in five other affected states each, costing N17.5bn.
The mass housing project includes two-bedroom flats built in clusters. The housing units have been handed over to the Borno State Government who distributed it to various households.
Alkali also said the NEDC executed 647 projects ranging from agriculture, health, education, energy/power across 112 local government areas in the northeast, with each local government gulping at least N50m, bringing the total expenditure to N5.6bn.
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He pointed out that three bridges have been constructed in Kudzum, Dilechim and Wuro-Ngayandi areas of Adamawa State.
Alkali explained that the absence of a steady education system in the Northeast has fuelled the insurgency.
Therefore, the commission, he explained, created an Education Endowment Fund with a seed capital of N6bn; with plans to dedicate 10 per cent of its annual allocation to the fund.
The NEDC was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2017 to coordinate all humanitarian interventions by government Ministries, Departments and Agencies based on the Northeast stabilization masterplan.
Editor Oloyede Oworu
