The state commissioner for information, Hon Bala Ibrahim revealed that Jigawa State executive council has approved the plans by the State Housing Authority to access N2.1bn from the Mortgage Bank for workers housing scheme.
He said the housing scheme initiated by the Governor Badaru led administration aims at providing low cost houses to the workers.
Bala stated that government has deemed it as a social responsibility to come up with policy that could ameliorate the acute shortage of affordable accommodation for the civil servants.
According to him, under the scheme 1,300 housing units would be constructed across the 27 local governmemt areas of the state.
