'Civil servants ought to own their own homes' - Osinbajo

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has stated that every civil servant deserves to have their own home, and for that reason, there is the need to reform the Nigerian Civil Service.

The VP's spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Friday, August 13, 2021, stated that the vice-president spoke after receiving a briefing on the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025 at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Osinbajo noted that there is a need to do something bold and big that will make a difference.

“It is evident that perhaps, for the first time in a long time, some very serious attention is being paid to all of the various issues in our civil service.

“I think that we should really do something that is bold, big and that will really make the difference in order to address some of the issues especially that of accommodation for civil servants.

“We can do much more with mass housing; we have a target now of 300,000 houses under our Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) social housing scheme.

“CBN has allocated N200 billion, but we have seen that we can provide mass housing, and we can make civil servants beneficiaries of the scheme, live in.

“It is a vital part of what we are trying to do; we must address it. A civil servant ought to be able to own a home, and justify to his family the reason why he went for the job,” he said.