The Federal Government has vowed to prosecute builders discovered answerable for the collapse of buildings within the nation.
The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, made this declaration throughout a evaluate assembly with regulatory our bodies within the constructed atmosphere on Friday.
Nigeria has witnessed sequence of constructing collapses lately, ensuing within the lack of lives and properties.
According to studies, over 100 buildings have collapsed within the nation since 2010, with the latest incident occurring in Plateau State and Abuja final month.
Dangiwa charged the ministry’s committee on constructing collapse to develop a guidelines of execs concerned within the development course of to ease investigation and determine culprits.
“You must come up with a checklist of things to observe during inspection or assessment of building collapse and there must be a column to apportion blame to who is culpable,” he stated.
The minister emphasised that the guidelines should guarantee high quality assurance of design, concrete high quality, soil checks, and supervision to determine these answerable for constructing collapse.
“Once there is building collapse, we should immediately move there with our checklist, identify it and fill in. Once that is done, you can independently sit down and identify the culprit and support it with tangible evidence,” he added.
The committee on constructing collapse introduced 12 suggestions, together with the reconstitution of the National Building Code Advisory Committee, evaluate of Acts establishing regulatory our bodies, and implementation of punitive measures for skilled negligence.
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Chairman of the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria, Dr Samson Opaluwah, recommended the Minister for his initiative, saying, “Before, when there was an incident of building collapse, nothing was done to it, but this initiative shows that the Federal Government and the ministry are concerned and ready to tackle this issue to ensure safety and security of lives and properties.”