Work is in progress at the National Housing Scheme, located at Isiagu, Awka South Local Government Area.
The Housing Scheme, which is a project of the Federal Government aimed at providing houses for civil servants in the state at a subsidized rates.
Works Correspondent Ngozi Obileri was part of the inspection team that visited the site yesterday, to monitor pace of work and reports that the National Housing Scheme was initiated in 2017 by the Buhari administration which mandated the Minister of Works, Power and Housing Mr Babatunde Fashola to provide affordable houses to Nigerian civil servants at a subsidised rate.
The project entails providing seventy thousand housing units annually to all classes of civil servants in the country as requested by United Nations.
In Anambra , the project is sited at Isiagu ,in Awka South Council Area.
Conducting news men round the site, a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Works, Power and Housing, Anambra, Architect Iwuchukwu Okafor, said the project was in three condominium of three story building each.
Architect Okafor explained further, that the houses will comprise seventy two units in each of the building to complete about four hundred and thirty three units that is due for Anambra state.
He added that the houses will have one bedroom, two and three bedroom housing units, to be benefited by every civil servant whose monies are being deducted from his or her salary every month for the purpose.
One of the contractors Mr Daniel Orji, whose building is at the first decking stage, said he was given mobilization fee, but when he mobilized to site he discovered that there is a change in the foundation of the building.
Mr Orji maintained that since 2017 till now, he is yet to receive payment for the money he has invested, appealing to federal government to pay him so as to facilitate the work.
Meanwhile, workers were seen on one part of the building, while the second and third buildings are at foundation level.
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