Pastor of the Royal House urges new minister to focus on affordable housing, more

Babatunde Fashola was appointed as the new minister of housing, amongst others, on November 11th.

His appointment has been met with pleasure from real estate expertsand negativity from the Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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One thing that has been constant, is the loads of advice from different people.

Paster Bassey James of the Royal House of Faith, Lekki, is the latest person to do so.

In a recent interview, he advised Fashola to recreate Alhaji Lateef Jakande’s mass housing magic.

"One the best things that ever happened in this country was the mass housing programme of Alhaji, when he was the first civilian governor of Lagos State, between 1979 and 1983. I want President and Mr to recreate the mass housing magic of across the country."

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He also spoke on Fashola's appointment as the new Minister of Works, Power and Hous­ing.

"I am so afraid, but I am also happy that is a man Ni­gerians love and respect because of his antecedents in Lagos. But to put three huge ministries under one man, I wonder how he will be sleeping these days. The former Federal Min­istry of Housing alone was big. We have an extremely huge demand for affordable housing. In the last 27 to 30 years, we have not seen a clear in­dication of a housing programme in Nigeria. No new federal government housing estates have been built; there are no state housing estates again. So, we need a very robust and pragmatic approach to housing delivery to Nigerians."