The Lagos State Government and the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation have began partnership talks aimed at providing affordable housing for Federal and Lagos State civil servants.
Head of Service of the Federation (HOSOF), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, revealed this while leading a technical delegation to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the Lagos House in Ikeja.
Oyo-Ita said the decision to go into partnership with the state government followed the need to key into the housing programme of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
She said under the scheme known as the Federal Integrated Staff Housing (FISH) programme, the Lagos State Government would be required to provide land for development of affordable housing for Federal civil servants, while 10 to 15 percentage of the scheme would be made available for civil servants in the State, who would benefit as the State’s equity contribution to the scheme.
She further noted that the decision to partner with the state government was borne out of the fact that many civil servants were willing to own properties in Lagos, being the commercial capital of Nigeria.
“We are here today to introduce to you Federal Integrated Staff Housing (FISH) Programme which is a welfare programme for federal civil servants that aspire to provide affordable housing for civil servants.
Lagos State is critical to this scheme and it is so because Lagos is the commercial capital of Nigeria and apart from the fact that quite a number of Lagos State indigene who are federal civil servants would want to own their homes here in Lagos State, there is a cross-section of Nigerians like somebody like me who grew up in Lagos who will like to have homes in Lagos State,” she stated.
