IN a renewed effort to bridge the housing gap, the Federal Government has set up a seven-member Interim Management Team to commence the process of commercializing and repositioning the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) for efficient service delivery.
Speaking at the inauguration of the committee yesterday in Abuja, Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Ms Amma Pepple urged the committee to develop a new corporate plan for FHA and work closely with the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to commercialize the operations of the agency.
The minister explained that the on-going restructuring programme in the FHA is aimed at enhancing the capacity of the organization. She noted that government would not tolerate the cases of missing files and other sharp practices, urged the committee to computerize the operations of the authority for easy issuance of titles and record keeping.
Pepple explained that the committee is transitional and would last only through the period of restructuring and commercialization of FHA adding that the positions would be re-advertized early next year.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry noted that the essence of the restructuring was to create a more efficient FHA to enable it meet the housing needs of Nigerians.
Responding on behalf of the members of the Committee, the Managing Director of FHA, Terver Gemade, an architect said that the committee intend to run a lean and efficient organization and would curb the leakages of the past in order to conserve funds.
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