Builders’ Group Fears Redundancy As Ministries Take Over Direct Housing Construction

The Association of Housing Corporations  of Nigeria (AHCN) has voiced superior concerns astir the increasing inclination of Ministries of Housing astatine the national and authorities levels straight constructing houses, informing that this is making lodging corporations irrelevant.

Speaking astatine the 2025 World Habitat Day Celebration successful Abuja, AHCN president, Eno Obongha expressed interest implicit the mediocre show of lodging corporations, saying, “The inclination whereby Ministries of Housing some astatine the Federal and State level are progressive successful nonstop lodging operation nether the guise of public-private concern is starring to the redundancy of duly constituted State Housing Corporations and the Federal Housing Authority.”

He urged authorities governors to enactment swiftly, stating, “We telephone connected the Governors of Taraba, Bauchi, and Nasarawa States arsenic good arsenic their Houses of Assembly to re-establish Housing Corporations oregon incorporated them into constricted liability companies for lodging implementation successful enactment with the proviso of the Nation’s Housing Policy, failing which they should beryllium sanctioned.”

Obongha emphasised the due roles of the bodies involved: “The Federal and State Ministries are principally created for argumentation formulation and supervision, portion State Housing Agencies are statutorily saddled with the implementation of authorities argumentation connected lodging provision.

Merging Housing Corporations with the State Ministries of Housing is an aberration, illegal, and unacceptable.”

He further highlighted the nationalist lodging challenge, urging for applicable solutions: “We request pragmatic approaches and due strategies to tackle the nation’s lodging deficit.

Prioritising affordable wide lodging is important arsenic it tin empower citizens and trim unemployment, thereby serving arsenic a instrumentality for economical recovery.”

Among his recommendations were renewed authorities committedness to societal housing, accrued usage of section gathering materials, slum upgrading, scaling up public-private partnerships, and innovative financing mechanisms.

On the value of unity and coordination, Obongha said, “The Renewed Hope Housing Agenda needs to beryllium decently harmonised and synchronised with authorities governments, utilizing authorities lodging corporations arsenic agents of transportation to instrumentality the docket to the adjacent level. This volition nary uncertainty unfastened up the system and assistance thrust our betterment by creating employment opportunities for our teeming unemployed youth.”

He called for transparency and urged states to trim gathering and onshore costs, supply affordable rental housing, and make Agric-Villages to curb rural-urban migration.With the lodging assemblage contributing 17.4 per cent to Nigeria’s GDP successful the archetypal 4th of 2025, Obongha stressed, “Our young radical merit a aboriginal escaped of uncertainty. We envision a caller Nigeria wherever lodging becomes the motor of economical maturation and that imagination is achievable if harmonisation is good coordinated and executed.

“The warnings and recommendations from AHCN underscore the urgent request to clarify roles and reenforce lodging corporations to efficaciously code Nigeria’s lodging deficit.