The Real Reason We Rejected N3bn Quarters – Ex Deputy Speaker

Emeka Ihedioha, the immediate past deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, has cleared the air on why former presiding officers of the National Assembly did not move into the N3 billion official quarters provided for them in Maitama extension, Abuja.

The PDP politician said they feared for their safety, as the houses were not located within the Three Arms Zone. Therefore, the future residents were exposed to insecurity, The Nation reports.

Ihedioha said the members of the National Assembly could not understand why only the legislature was left out in the allocation of official houses in the zone, whereas top shots from the executive and the judiciary reside within the area.

“Why do you want to zone out the heads of the legislature to across the road…almost close to Mpape! It’s across the road, its Mpape, after the military barracks. So why would you put us behind the military barrack, that is military confinement.

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“And we said they must find a place. So we started battling. They said they had found a place, we said it was not for us, we won’t live in it. The Senate President, his deputy, the Speaker and his Deputy must live within the three- arms zone, because they are also part of government. And today, those buildings are almost completed.”

It would be noted that Mallam Bala Mohammed, the immediate past minister of the Federal Capital Territory, informed last March that the new residences being built within the Three Arms Zone would cost a total of N27.1 billion.

The project included residences for the Senate president, the deputy Senate president, the House of Reps Speaker and his deputy. The quarters have a guest house,  an aide-de-camp’s house, staff quarters, a banquet hall, a chapel, a mosque, a power house and a gate house.

The Nation also noted that the former official quarters were sold to the occupants at ridiculous amounts, causing some of the 7th Assembly presiding officers to stay in private houses.

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