The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Shuaib Belgore, has revealed the ministry’s plan to create a task team in every state
This is to ensure proper audits of the ministry’s properties and land across the federation, as well as look into the collection of ground rent on those properties.
This was disclosed on the ministry’s website recently. Belgore stated this during his interactive session with the 36 states and FCT Federal Controllers of Housing, held at the Ministry’s Headquarters in Abuja.
“The task team will include the controller in every state, representatives from the state and Federal Housing Authority, with the Surveyor-General of the Federation as the Chairman of the Task Team.”
He assured them of his readiness to provide them with the resources needed to execute their jobs so that they would not have an excuse for not doing them correctly, adding that a portion of the revenue will be retained for fieldwork and evaluation.
