TCRA fines local radio, TV stations
Addressing journalists in the city
yesterday, TBA Chief Executive officer, Mr Elius Mwakalinga, said TBA
has already issued a notice to all debtors, who bought on a softloan
basis government houses to ensure they pay their debts immediately.
“We call upon those who acquired
government houses to clear their debts as soon as possible - in less
than a week. Failure to do so the government will be forced to take back
the houses,” said Mr Mwakalinga.
Mr Mwakalinga said government
institutions, ministries and organisations owed TBA over 12bn/-, being
accumulation of the arrears of fees of advice, houses and home sales.
“We owe the government over 12bn/ as accumulated arrears from home
sales, housing debts and others.
It is the expectation of the Agency that
the government through the Ministry of Finance and Planning will pay
the money for the Agency to continue working effectively and efficiently
as planned,” he explained. He said that the demand of housing for
public servants is still big.
A total of 400,000 houses were needed,
while there was an increase of 30,000 houses every year. He pointed out
that the biggest challenge facing the construction industry was
importation of fake building materials that affected the construction
market in the country.
He said the Agency was planning to
establish a manufacturing industry of building materials such as
windows, doors and other pieces of homes equipment for government
officers with the aim to have quality building materials.
The decision of the government to
establish Mortgage Finance, he said, would help the Agency to deal with
the challenge of lack of funds.
TBA Director of Consultancy Architect
Edwin Nnunduma said a total of 37 public servants had bought government
houses and the Agency had, according to the procedure, given them their
title deeds.
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