State government provides housing estates for displaced people

Borno state government is building housing estates to accommodate all the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

The estates include: Legacy Garden Estate at Bulunkutu along the airport road, which is over 80 percent completed, a set of 1,000 housing units known as Bakassi Housing Estate, built along Biu road, 475 two-bedroom housing units at Yerwa Peace Community Housing Estate for displaced victims of Boko Haram attacks whose houses were destroyed at Bulaburin Garanam in the state.

Housing estates were also built for workers, these include: a 20-housing estate Doctors Quarters at Mailafiya street in the state capital now accommodating medical doctors in Maiduguri and a 300 one-bedroom housing units known as Ali Monguno Teachers Village for teachers, but currently housing IDPs displaced by Boko Haram insurgency.

Dr Abdulfatai Musa Saromi of National Coordination of Shelter for Life, a Non-Governmental Organization advocating for good shelter for all, told Daily Trust commended both past and present administrations in the state for the construction of standard housing estates in Maiduguri as this has helped accommodate workers and thousands of IDPs.

“Some of the housing estates built by the present administration in the state despite the ongoing insurgency cannot be found in most states of the federation. I wonder what the governor would have turned this state to if there was no crisis. If not for those structures now that are containing workers and IDPs, what do you think could have happened? Borno is actually leading in property.”