Ugwuanyi Blazes Trail in Radical Mass Housing Programme

Last year, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi launched an ambitious mass housing programme that reduced the burden of the usually huge equity contribution on the public to a tolerable level. The Ugwuanyi administration paid over 50 percent equity contribution for Enugu State civil servants between grade levels 01-10 for the purchase of 100 units of one-bedroom flats at Elim Estate, Ibagwa Nike, Enugu. 

Barring radical gestures such as that implemented by the Enugu State government, owning personal homes was more often than not a Herculean task even for senior level public servants, let alone workers below the mid-level cadre....
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