The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has revoked the provisional letters of allocation offered to subscribers of the National Housing Programme.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mahmud Mamman, and sighted by our correspondent on Friday.
It was titled, “Review of Sale of Houses Under National Housing Programme”.
The ministry stated that it was reviewing the conditions and procedures of sales of the houses, adding that the affected subscribers include beneficiaries of the programme from the first batch to the 14th batch.
The statement partly read, “I write to inform the general public and the subscribers of the National Housing Programme, particularly those with provisional offer of allocation of housing units under the ongoing National Housing Programme, that the provisional letter of offer of allocation made to them is now invalid.
“The invalidity affects the first batch of provisional offers of allocation issued on December 10, 2021, which has 90 days validity period that elapsed on March 10, 2022, up to the last Batch (14th batch) issued on July 18, 2023, which also has a validity period of 90 days that elapsed on October 18, 2023.
“The ministry is currently in the process of revising the conditions and procedures of sales of the houses and will publicise the same in due course when concluded.”
The ministry, according to the statement, further said all interested subscribers who had yet to pay for the houses offered them had till Thursday, November 30, 2023, to make their payment.
