698 Civil Servants To Benefit As Lagos Govt Plans Home Allocation Via Ballot System

• Lagos government plans to allocate homes to 698 civil servants through a ballot system.

• Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, announced the initiative during a press briefing.

• The government aims to ensure transparency in allocation.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lagos State government has announced plans to allocate homes to 698 civil servants through a ballot system in its different housing estates.

This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, during the 2024 ministerial press briefing held to mark the first year of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s second term in office at Alausa, Ikeja.

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Akinderu-Fatai further mentioned that selected participants in the housing scheme will receive a 40% rebate over their service lifetime.

“In order to promote transparency in home unit allocation, the state government will, henceforth, allocate some of its homes through the ballot.

“The process will be observed by independent observers to ensure transparency and fairness.

“Some of the locations are: Idale (Badagry Division) and LagosHOM Odo-Onosa/Ayandelu (Epe-Division) come June 4,” the commissioner said.

He added that the Lagos State Mortgage Board had compiled a list of applicants for home unit allocation.

“Within various schemes, we have pre-qualified 950 applicants for home unit allocation. We also have 400 applicants for LagosHOMS, Ajara, Badagry, 450 for LagosHS, Odo-Onosa/Ayandelu.

“We have 100 for Lagos State public affordable housing scheme, Idale Badagry,” Akinderu-Fatai said.

The commissioner also said the ministry was able to engage over 8,000 skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled residents of Lagos.

“In August 2023, the ministry trained an additional 200 artisans under its Master Craftsman Training Programme. The six weeks programme was organised in collaboration with a consultant.

“The courses were: plumbing and pipe works, masonry, painting, decoration, carpentry and furniture making and electrical installations,” he said.

Akinderu-Fatai said the ministry had to deal with challenges such as encroachment on state-owned land and housing projects, litigation, slow pace of work by joint venture partners and the current inflation trend.

“But we have been able to settle most litigation through Alternative Dispute Resolution and strategies to curb delays.

“We will encourage the use of local products, we’re leveraging on various relationships with the academia and professional bodies to support research into cheaper and alternative building technology,” he said.

He added that the government recovered N176m from housing estate debtors.

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Akinderu-Fatai said, “The Ministry through an improved revenue generation machinery was able to collect outstanding debts totalling N176, 617, 500 from defaulting allottees in Millennium Housing Estate, Gbagada, Baba Omojola Housing Estate, Gbagada, Millennium Housing Estate, Oke-Eletu, Emeka Anyaokwu Housing Estate, Ikeja and Millennium Housing Estate, Ojokoro.”

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