Nigerian Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo says every Federal Public Servant ought to be able to own a home and the Government should help them do this.
Speaking during the release of the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025, Professor Osinbajo (pictured) called for reforms to be “bold and big that will make a difference”.
After listening to an outline of the plan from Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, Professor Osinbajo said it was evident that for the first time in a long time, some serious attention was being paid to all of the various issues in the Public Service.
“I think that we should really do something that is bold, big and will really make the difference in order to address some of the issues, especially that of accommodation for Civil Servants,” Professor Osinbajo said.
“We can do much more with mass housing. We have a target now of 300,000 houses under our social housing scheme,” he said.
“We have seen that we can provide mass housing, and we can make Civil Servants beneficiaries of the scheme.”
Professor Osinbajo said access to affordable homes was one of the easiest ways to get people out of poverty.
“It is a vital part of what we are trying to do…a Civil Servant ought to be able to own a home, and justify to his family the reason why he went for the job,” the Vice President said.
Dr Yemi-Esan said continuing reforms in the Federal Public Service were enabling the Government to save huge sums through the verification of the personnel payroll and digitisation of some operations.
“We will continue to lead the reform process as the 2021-2025 plan goes forward,” Dr Yemi-Esan said.
Abuja, 16 August 2021
