Gov't to Use Lottery System to Allocate President Uhuru's Low-Cost Houses
Housing and Urban Development Principal Secretary Charles Hinga says the government will allocate low-cost houses to Kenyans using a lottery system.
Speaking during an interview with Citizen TV, PS Hinga has revealed that only those who register and make monthly contributions to the Housing Fund will be eligible to get the cheap houses.
Hinga says the lottery system will be a fair way of selecting homeowners under the project.
"One has to register and start contributing before a house is allocated to them. A lottery system will be then employed to determine who will get a house under this particular system," PS Hinga reveals.
The official says the affordable housing project was one of the key Jubilee government agendas in its manifesto.
"Jubilee said they were going to build 500,000 houses in their manifesto, they went to every Kenyan, the fact that you elected them, you knew they made a commitment and they had to fulfill it," he says when asked why the government is forcing all workers to contribute to the housing fund.
He also states that the housing levy is not a tax but rather a contribution that will be refunded in case one fails to get a house.
"Every Kenyan has a right to decent housing. The question we should be debating now is how to fund that right," he retorts.
Under the project, President Kenyatta's administration is seeking to construct more than 500,000 cheap housing units by 2022.
The Employment and Labor Relations Court has since temporarily suspended the implementation of the 1.5 percent housing levy pending the hearing and determination of cases filed workers and employers' bodies.
The bodies want the government stopped from implementing the levy.
Comments (6)
This is BullShit: Corruption in the making BullShit.
Kenyans can build cheap houses themselves if corruption is under control. How can you levy Kenyans just like "hut tax" during colonial times while corruption is at its pick and (give the levy to foreigners to build while our youth are jobless). By the time those who are levied will ask for their refund in 2022, this government will be out of office and will not be accountable. Let this government first complete all corruption cases, get money refunded by the thieves in former and present government (Kidero; Waiguru; Obando; Ojaamong; Cabinet secretaries etc) before asking the common mwananchi to start paying for a new scandal. This government needs to show accountability before venturing any further.
Conclude the cases that are in the process first.
This is a bad idea.
They are just planning to steal.
Yeah right i bet that lottery has been manipulated prime houses will be allocated to politicians and the likes
If this is not a scam just sell housing bonds and raise the money needed. Everyone wins that way instead of this pata potea brainless scheme from the boy in statehouse. Pombe tu! Pombe kila saa. Worst president ever.
Keyword for: stay away and make way for non deserving thieves who pay bribes.