12Dec, 23
- Temidayo Taiwo-Sidiq
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- Chairman to appoint 6 Assistant Committee Chairmen to represent six geo-political zones in the country
- Urges active participation, teamwork as key to achieving the Committee's oversight mandate
The House of Representatives has expressed its commitment towards fashioning a radical housing agenda and legislation for Nigeria to enable citizens to enjoy affordable housing.
Chairman of the Committee on Housing and Habitat Committee, Hon. Aminu Balele Kurfi, stated this on Monday during the Committee's inaugural meeting in Abuja.
In his remarks, Rep Balele noted that Nigerians across all social classes in every geo-political zone look up to the legislature to set up renewed vision, missions, strategies and laws for modern housing policies. These interventions, he added, would provide reasonable, accessible, affordable and habitable houses to a great majority of Nigerians on approved conditions.
"In our endeavour to achieve these noble expectations, let me humbly notify my Honourable colleagues on the necessity to imbibe the culture of effective legislation, active partnership, efficient collaboration, relevant responsive capacity building, mutual collective responsibility, open door policy and critical oversight functions.
I call on us to deeply reflect on each of these managerial ethos and entrench them in our deep-seated minds so as to serve as our guiding principles in all our actions. We should strive to work as a team, and engage our oversight partners not as administrative or political adversaries, rather as professional colleagues and partners in progress.
The common bonds which unite us with our partners in the oversight domains are denominated in our shared basic responsibility to serve our homeless citizens. Therefore, what unites us far outweighs the gimmicks of administrative or legislative differences," he said.
The Chairman further assured his colleagues of inclusive leadership through open door policy, just as he called for support in the provision of useful ideas that could aid the committee in achieving its goals. He added that he will be decentralising responsibilities by creating six subcommittees to handle various issues and report back to the main Committee as and when due.
"...it is my decision to decentralise the enormous functions of the committee by appointing 6 additional Assistant Committee Chairmen to represent the six existing geo-political zones in the country.
These assistants will facilitate the jobs of the Deputy Chairmen, and shall be co-opted from fellow Honourable Colleagues of the House. In the days to come, sub-committees will be formed in order to carry out specific responsibilities under the various segments of our legislative, oversight and policy making jurisdictions," he added.
In their various remarks, the Committee Members commended the Chairman for his liberal approach to leadership, describing the decision to decentralise responsibilities by creating sub-committees as an important one. They pledged their support for the Chairman in his leadership of the Committee, while also scoring him very high for his openness to suggestions and ideas on how to move the Committee forward.
Rep Kurfi called on ranking members within the Committee to offer their wealth of experience through useful advice and institutional memories that will help in the achievement of its set goals. Noting that active participation remains key to achieving the Committee's oversight mandate, he harped on the need for teamwork and collaboration with all stakeholders.
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