‘We’ll demolish substandard works, revoke contract’, Dangiwa warns Renewed Hope Housing Projects Developers
Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc Ahmed Musa Dangiwa has warned those handling the Renewed Hope Housing Estates and Cities to execute the projects according to set standards or risk getting their contract revoked.
“We will not tolerate any substandard work found on any Renewed Hope Project Site anywhere in the country,” the minister said.
Dangiwa emphasised that construction in all the 13 Renewed Hope Housing Projects must be based on contractual terms to ensure durability.
“Under the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. President, we are very committed to ensuring that the houses that we build and the infrastructure is of good quality.
“To all the developers and contractors on our Renewed Hope Housing Projects, I want them to know that we will not tolerate poor quality work from any developer or contractor.
“If we identify any substandard work at any of the project sites, we will first demolish the structure and the Contractor will have to rebuild as per standard or we revoke the contract entirely”, he warned.
The minister gave the warning while inspecting ongoing construction of the 1,500 and 500 Housing Housing Unit Renewed Hope Housing City in Kano State.
“We are impressed with the pace of work at the 1,500 Housing Unit Renewed Hope City that we are building here in Kano through a Public Private Private Partnership (PPP) with a consortium of developers led by Continental Civil Engineering. I commend them for the speed and the workforce they have mobilised.
“For the 500-Housing Unit Renewed Hope City which we are funding under the 2023 Supplementary budget, the project is not moving at the pace that we expect and we want the developers to step things up so we can complete and commission”, he said.
Dangiwa reminded the developers that all the houses must be finished “within two to three months”.
The Federal Government is currently building 2,000 housing units in Kano, 3,112 units in FCT and 2,000 in Lagos, while 3,000 housing units are being constructed in 12 states, each having 250 units.
The minister directed Federal Controllers and assigned monitoring personnel in the affected states to ensure close supervision of the projects.
