2018年8月1日

尼日利亚工会大会(TUC)主席Bobboi Kaigama周二在阿布贾的一个利益相关者论坛上宣布了尼日利亚之声(VON)和价值链咨询公司工人之间的伙伴关系安排，他透露，联邦政府将开始在每个地缘政治区域选定的两个州为公务员建造房屋，因为工人每月向联邦抵押贷款银行捐款。会议宣布，价值链咨询公司将开始为VON工人建造房屋，并通过科学分析对工人进行资格预审，以确定每个工人的住房负担能力状况。Kaigama表示，住房项目将覆盖每个地缘政治区域的两个州，第一阶段在阿布贾和拉各斯有特别的地区。南区将位于河流和三角洲、Nasarawa和高原(中北部)、卡杜纳和卡诺(西北部)、博尔诺和阿达马瓦(东北部)、拉各斯和奥贡(西南部)以及埃努古和阿比亚(东南部)，Kaigama指出，工人们为FMBN贡献了N2b，他说，这些资金现在将有效地用于尼日利亚工人。他透露，该项目已经得到了穆罕穆杜·布哈里总统的支持。他赞扬价值链咨询公司煞费苦心地为公务员进行详细的住房负担能力调查，他说，这将消除空置建筑的问题，这些问题导致工人无力支付为他们建造的房屋。“当你在建造房屋时，你不知道你的承租者的身份，你的努力将是徒劳的。“以前为工人建造房屋的努力仍然是白象工程，因为他们没有花时间为工人计划，了解每个工人的工资实力。”凯加马质疑授予合同建造尼日利亚工人负担不起的房屋的理由。他说:“我们目前的情况是为上层阶级建造房屋，由于成本太高，甚至连冯省的首长都负担不起目前在阿布贾建造的房子。他赞扬了价值链咨询公司在开始建造员工宿舍之前不辞辛苦地对员工进行资格预审的努力，并补充说，新概念将对遏制公职人员的腐败有很大帮助。根据他的说法，“国际银行提供的贷款只有个位数，那么为什么尼日利亚的银行从贷款中收取高达25%的利息呢?”他问道，“我们准备好了支持你。无论你在哪个机构工作，我们目前的愿望是确保每一位公务员都能得到照顾。 He also commended the DG of Von for releasing the land for the workers housing scheme. The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria ( VON) , Ostia Okechukwu assured the workers that the project will be carefully executed for the benefit of the workers adding that “ we have made available 20 hectors of land at Lugbe within the federal capital Territory in the first phase for the workers. “ We took time to hold series of meetings before we got to this stage. I want to assure you that when the planning stage is completed within the next two weeks, we will commence construction of the houses and Mr President will commission the houses” he assured Okechukwu who disclosed that all the VON staff across the nation will be accommodated under the arrangement noted the staff residing in Abuja will however be the first beneficiaries of the current arrangements. “ We are adopting a model that will tie these houses to their work, drawing a nexus between their work and the values they gain by working well” The Principal Consultant of the Value Chain Consults, Joshua Egbagbe noted that housing is a basic human necessity even as provided for in Section 26(2d) of the Nigerian Constitution, which he said provided that suitable and adequate shelter should be made available for Nigerian citizens. He noted that the project tagged VON/TUC/ Value Chain strategy for affordable housing, will witness a survey targeted at the pocket of every civil servant, to know the off takers affordability status of each worker. The project backed by the German Agency for Development ( GIZ ), is the first of its kind in Nigeria targeting three important factor in housing, such ad Age and monthly net salary of the workers as well as the mortgage interest on the loan According to him” For the past four years, we have been fine tuning this strategy until we signed an agreement for a strategic partnership. “Housing is an important incentive to make workers more productive, prevent corruption, as well as check problem of insecurity.