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From Aloysius Attah, Onitsha
A civil society group, Leadership Orientation and Basic Rights Advocacy Centre (LOBRAC), has made a case for affordable social housing and rent control law in Anambra State.
The group, led by its Executive Director, Barr. Stanley Okafor, yesterday, met with the state Commissioner for Housing Mr. Henry Arize, at the state Secretariat Complex, Aroma Awka. The meeting deliberated issues centered on high cost of living spaces for ordinary people in the state, especially within the Awka capital territory, and means of ameliorating the associated hazards.
The group stressed its readiness to partner the state government in addressing the issue of high cost of housing for ordinary people in the state and noted that it would synergise with the state legislature to develop a rent control and regulation bill for consideration by the house of assembly for passage as law.
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Okafor expressed gratitude to the governor of Anambra State, Prof Charles Soludo, for reacting speedily to an earlier letter by which the group echoed the dangers now faced by Anambra residents who can no longer find living spaces.
He hailed the governor, noting that Prof. Soludo has consistently shown a tendency to stand with the downtrodden. The lawyer, however, expressed dismay that the meeting with the commissioner for housing failed, with regard to agreement on the need for urgent control and regulation for rents, and the curbing of the nuisance created by unlicensed housing agents in the state.
The group vowed to continue to support the developmental efforts of the state government going forward.
