Former president Olusegun Obasanjo and Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris are expected to commission River Park Estate along airport road, today in Abuja.
Chairman of River Park Estate Paul Odili said part of the activities slated for the official launch of the estate is the handing over of a newly built, furnished and equipped Divisional Police Station to the Nigeria Police. According to him, the Inspector General of Police will be on hand to take over the facilities and equipment.
According to him, the police station which is of a divisional standard will serve the River Park Estate community and its environs in providing security.
Odili said the police station is the first full-fledged divisional police station in an estate in the Federal Capital Territory.
Odili who said that the estate is occupying 501 hectares was built under the mass housing project under Public Private Partnership (PPP).
He said, “The ultra-modern African Home project is a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) under the Mass Housing Project initiated by the Obasanjo administration headed by Prof. Akin Mabogunje through which the 501 hectares expanse of land was allocated to the developer of River Park Estate with the sole purpose of building different types of houses to cater for the various strata of the society and reducing the nation’s housing deficit.”
Odili said over 3,000 houses of different sizes in five different clusters have already been built on the estate.
Odili said the estate is the largest and cost friendly estate in West Africa that has different sizes of buildings ranging from one bedroom to 7 bedroom apartments with a well-structured and flexible payment system that does not require deposit or collateral.
Speaking of the unique features of the River Park Estate, the Vice- Chairman, Adrian Ogun said the estate can boast of infrastructural facilities such as; reticulated water system, reliable electricity supply at no cost to residents, internal road network, places of worship, a 9-hole golf course among others.
