The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu has announced the federal government readiness to build renewed hope low-cost shelters for the very poor, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees across Nigeria.
This special projectich according to the minister, is in line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's commitment to providing dignified shelter for the poor, internally displaced persons and refugees in the country is one of the ways of addressing multi-dimensional poverty in the country.
The Minister made this known during an inspection of prototype shelters of two sample houses (one bedroom & two bedrooms) at Idu village.
She opined that both samples were built by the local people in that community for themselves, using local materials in ten days and very cost effective saying this will be applicable across Nigeria.
She said government wants to achieve the project in record time because lots of IDP's exist in different parts of Nigeria, and they need a befitting shelter they can call their home.
According to heri, "what is also interesting about the project is the fact that we want to introduce solar energy to it so that the shelters are not dependent on the National Grid, but they can use solar energy to provide at least the basics such as bulb light, electricity for charging their phones and do other basic things with in the locality".
The Minister further stated that Mr. President directed that the shelters be built by the local community to provide them with skills and economic empowerment, as well as the dignity of owning their houses which the built by themselves under strict supervision of professionals.
"The project is not a contract or to be built by a contractor but the local community will be given the dignity of building the house they will live in, see it as their project, own it and will not vandalise or destroy it".
"To ensure quality control, the construction of the houses will be supervised by professional architects, engineers and support from the Federal Ministry of Works"
Dr. Edu said, the shelters will be built in Benue, Borno, Zamfara, Yobe, Cross River, Ebonyi, Lagos, Adamawa, Bayelsa and other states that have large numbers of IDPs, Refugees and extremely poor Nigerians.
Weeks Back, the ground breaking ceremony of the houses was done in Benue State, where the building of forty shelters was flagged off and the ground clearing has been concluded on the 10 hectares of land in Benue while block mounding and preliminary work like digging is ongoing.
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