The move by WHC is a fulfilment of a
promise made by the fourth phase government under retired president
Jakaya Kikwete for the government to seek a lasting solution to the lack
of descent houses by civil servants.
Speaking to the press in Dar es Salaam,
WHC Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Fred Msemwa named the regions with
the housing units in brackets as Tanga at Pongwe area (40), Mwanza at
Kisesa Township (56) and Dar es Salaam which will receive the bulk of
the houses to be built in Kigamboni (400), Bunju (190) and Magomeni
Usalama (104). According to the WHC Chief Executive Officer, the
Magomeni Usalama project is set to build two flat buildings with 15
floors each.
The buildings to be built right at the
heart of a historical part of Dar es Salaam in which it used to be the
home for a good number of mid-ranking civil servants of independent
Tanzania Mainland (Tanganyika) is set to change once and forever the
area’s scenery.
“The move to launch this construction
drive is just a tip of the iceberg as WHC is all out to unleash one of
the major moves to ease the plight of public servants. The 800 housing
units are going to act as a prelude to the following massive campaign to
construct about 50,000, affordable homes for public servants in a
period of five phases effective 2014/15 fiscal year,” said the CEO.
Besides Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Tanga
and Mwanza regions benefitting in the construction of the low cost, yet
descent houses under the WHC’s first phase drive covering this year
other regions lined up for the construction drive in the near future are
Dodoma, Ruvuma, Mtwara, Mbeya, Kigoma, Mwanza, Shinyanga, Arusha,
Tanga, Lindi and Coast.
It is in Coast Region where WHC is set
to radically change the face of Kibaha Township by launching a massive
project to build 1,000 housing units in what will be a satellite town
aimed at warding off the town’s residents commuting to Dar es Salaam for
shopping.
“We are about to radically change the
face of Kibaha by creating a satellite city of 1,000 modern housing
units plus supportive commercial infrastructure including setting up an
ultra-modern shopping mall and other public amenities to serve up to
5,000 residents.
This might turn to be one of the
mega-projects to be undertaken by WHC as it scales up the ladder of
serving both civil servants and the nation. I am sincerely asking our
customers to have a trust on our efforts to turn into a reality their
decades long dreams to own modern and descent houses,” added Dr Msemwa.
To clear the way for public servants to
purchase affordable homes under WHC, the outfit has signed transactions
agreements with five commercial banks which are CRDB Bank, Azania, NMB,
Bank of Africa (BoA), and Exim Bank
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