The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has cautioned the National Assembly over its plan to scrap the Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board (FGSHLB) describing it “unpatriotic.”
In a press statement issued in Lagos, ASCSN National President, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama, and the Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, lamented that instead of concentrating on making laws that would alleviate the suffering of the citizens, the National assembly was hell bent on enacting a law to abolish the Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board.
“The ill-advised Bill which has gone through second reading in the Federal House of Representatives if allowed to be passed into law will certainly inflict maximum damage, pain, and sorrow on hapless public servants who have devoted their entire working lives serving their fatherland,” the union said.
It emphasized that Decree № 6 of 1974 now an Act that established the board charged it with four core mandates of providing loan facilities for public servants to build a residential house in Nigeria for use of the applicant or his family; purchase a parcel of land in Nigeria in which such residential house is to be built; purchase a residential house in Nigeria for use of the applicant or his family; and for improving or extending a residential house owned by the applicant and to which he has a valid and good title acceptable to the Board.
“It is on record that the Board has, since its inception, granted loan facilities to about 22,989 public officers to buy land, build or purchase houses and renovate same.”
