NEDC inaugurates 500 mass housing units in Gombe
North East Development Commission (NEDC), is set to build 500 affordable mass housing units in Gombe.
The project was commissioned on Wednesday, at the site on Gombe-Kano road in Gombe metropolis, by Governor Muhammadu Yahaya.
The governor appealed to NEDC and donor agencies, to take special look at the state that has turned comforting harbour to many displaced Nigerians in the North-east.
Yahaya reiterated that the safety and immeasurable security situation of Gombe, has exposed it to the influx of troubled Nigerians from the insurgency and banditry torn states like Taraba, Yobe, Adamawa and Bauchi.
He said, “This initiative of housing development at this very critical and crucial time is really worth commending and appreciating.
“I wish to thank you most profoundly and it is for that this parcel of land that has been lying fallow for so long but we decided to commit it.
“This is because we have the believe that whatever you promise you deliver and seeing is believing and in the couple of months when we come here houses will spring up and people will benefit from your contribution.”
Speaking earlier, Chairman of the NEDC Board, Maj. Gen Paul Tarfa (retd.) said rebuilding northeast remained the key mandate of the commission.
According to him, the presidential mandate of revamping all vital sectors of the six states of the North-east forms the most integral mission of the NEDC.
At the commissioning, the NEDC boss also announced other intervention gestures like rehabilitation of moribund farm centres, distribution of food and non-food items.
Also, the Managing Director NEDC, Muhammad Alkali said NEDC would establish farm service centres and functional laboratories in all the three senatorial zones.
According to him, the efforts would boost agricultural activities in Gombe State.
He however noted that activities of NEDC would key into Yahaya’s programmes, sighting Gombe Goes Green project as one of such.
NEDC also assured it’s readiness to assist in rehabilitating Primary Education Centres in all the Northeastern states.
