The need for affordable but quality housing for Nigerians to form part of the national agenda for the 2023 elections, was on Saturday harped on.
Some Nigerian builders under the aegis of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) who took this position, said that the inclusion of the housing plan into the subsisting national discuss, would help provide the needed shelter to teeming Nigerians in the future.
The professionals made the position at the 2nd Annual Memorial Lecture for Otunba Fatai-Osikoya, a foremost builder in Lagos who mentored most of the present nation’s builders.
Speaking at the event, themed, “Agenda for Housing Development in Nigeria: 2023 in Perspective“, Mr Femi Adewole, Guest Speaker, said that availability of fund for mass housing was essential to the delivery of 300,000 homes by 2025 to reduce housing deficit.
Decrying incessant building collapse in the country In recent times, Adewole called on people, especially those in the building industry to always engage the services of certified professionals as key to avoiding incidents of building collapse.
He pointed out that Nigeria’s building policy for the coming years should be such that would drive other social strata to stardom with a view to managing some of the crisis that had kept the people’s social standard low.
In her remarks, Mrs. Aramide Adeyoye, Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Works and Infrastructure, said that the state actors were looking at the builders to reform the system to give Nigerians better shelter.
Mr. Olugbega Ismail, a builder and discussant at the panel, said the use of local materials instead of reliance on importation of inputs would to a large extent drive down the cost of construction.
