In order to address Nigeria’s housing deficit, the House of Representatives Committee on Housing and Habitat has declared its intention to take on the difficult task of developing legislation that will bridge the housing deficit for Nigerians.
According to the committee, Nigerians across all social classes and geopolitical zones are eager for the legislature to establish new goals, missions, and laws pertaining to contemporary housing policies that will enable the vast majority of Nigerians to live in reasonably priced, livable homes under approved conditions. During the committee’s first meeting in Abuja on Monday, Rep. Aminu Balele Kurfi, the chairman, made these remarks to his colleagues.
Balele reminded his colleagues of the need to show commitment and dedication to the work ahead, noting that active participation remains key to achieving the committee’s oversight mandate.
“In our endeavour to achieve these noble expectations, let me humbly notify my honourable colleagues on the necessity to imbibe the culture of effective legislation, active partnership, efficient collaboration, relevant responsive capacity building, mutual collective responsibility, open door policy, and critical oversight functions.
“I call on us to deeply reflect on each of these managerial ethos and entrench them in our deep-seated minds to serve as our guiding principles in all our actions. We should strive to work as a team and engage our oversight partners not as administrative or political adversaries, but rather as professional colleagues and partners in progress.
“The common bonds that unite us with our partners in the oversight domains are denominated in our shared basic responsibility to serve our homeless citizens. Therefore, what unites us far outweighs the gimmicks of administrative or legislative differences.
“For these reasons and many others known to you, we must foster a virile spirit of unity of purpose between us and our partners, and we shall do so with a great sense of relative independence as unique legislators,” he said.
The chairman assured his colleagues of inclusive leadership through open door policy, just as he called for support in the provision of useful ideas that could aid the committee in achieving its goals, adding that he will be decentralising responsibilities by creating subcommittees to handle various issues and report back to the main committee at the appropriate time.
