Ebonyi state Government has approved N5bn for the construction of 126 housing units for civil servants in the state.
The state Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Jude Okpor, disclosed this during a press briefing on the outcome of the state executive council meeting in his office.
Okpor further disclosed that each of the housing units would costs N40 million.
The Commissioner also revealed that the executive council approved a memorandum of understanding between the state government and a contractor which was guaranteed by Transmission Company of Nigeria for the provision of recoverable loan to facilitate the immediate completion of Mile 50-Amasiri 132kv double circuit line in the state for power supply.
“To consolidate on the State Government’s position of taking electric power supply to the rural areas, particularly the Ebonyi South Senatorial Zone and also to reposition the state for industrial revolution, EXCO approved a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ebonyi State Government and Flour International/EURAFRIC Energy Limited (JV) and guaranteed by Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) for the provision of recoverable loan to facilitate the immediate completion of the Mile 50—Amasiri 132KV double circuit line in the state.
“The council approved that the drafted memory be committed to signing. Recall that EXCO had earlier approved the release of a recoverable TCN guaranteed loan of USD781,235,67 + ₦130,258,048.24 to ensure the completion of the double circuit 132KV line from Mile 50 to the Amasiri substation.
“Following an earlier approval for the construction of housing units for civil servants in the state and subsequent preliminary actions to bring this government’s desire to fruition, the council approved the sum of Forty Million Naira (₦40,000,000)) only as a unit cost for each of the one hundred and twenty-six (126) approved housing units. This is expected to gulp the total sum of Five Billion, Forty Million naira (₦5,040,000,000:00). Recall that the Exco in the meeting of 26/11/2024 had resoled to execute this project through direct labour”.
