Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Abdulhafis Gbolahan Toriola, disclosed this while fielding questions from newsmen on the allocation of the newly commissioned 270 home units of the Egan Housing Scheme.
Toriola, while lauding the patience and understanding of the early subscribers that had waited for the estate to be completed, said: “The state had since refunded 145 former subscribers who applied for repayment with genuine evidence of payment since the administration of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode till date.”
The permanent secretary said that those with no evidence of payments or with questionable documentations were still being investigated. Toriola, who acknowledged that there was a change of policy from LBIC “mortgage scheme” to the “outright purchase” at the point of hand over of the scheme to the ministry in 2017 by Ambode, said that this policy alteration was communicated to all subscribers through various platforms.