RAJAB 11 1430 A.H.
FRIDAY JULY, 3 2009.
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Ahmad tasks FRSC on discipline
Yayale Ahmad, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), had called on the FRSC to intensify efforts at enthroning road traffic discipline nationwide.
Ahmad made the call in Abuja while flagging-off the construction of 352 FRSC staff housing units at Lokogoma District in Abuja.
He said the Federal Exective Council (FEC) would support every effort by the FRSC to bring about sanity on the country's roads.
Ahmed, who noted that the houses would go a long way in improving the lives of FRSC employees, called on other government agencies to emulate the Commission by providing affordable houses for their workers.
``If the employees are encouraged to have their houses, they will not look for money by all means to build their houses,” the SGF said.
He commended the FCT administration for allocating 19.58 hectares of land to the Commission for the housing estate.
Mr Osita Chidoka, the FRSC Corps Marshal, said providing the housing units was one of the ways of fighting corruption in the Commission.
Chidoka said that besides punishing offenders, enhancing the quality of lives and well being of employees was also a means of fighting corruption.
``This estate, which is projected to cost about N1.7 billion is partly funded with a commercial facility of N1.3 billion at 18 per cent interest rate from United Bank for Africa Plc,’’ he said.
He said it was also being funded with internal equity fund from FRSC Housing Cooperative.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the FRSC Housing Cooperative Society commenced deduction from its members’ salary in September 2004.
The society, prior to the Lokogoma housing project, had executed two similar projects in Kubwa in FCT and Masaka in Nasarawa state.
