FCT Officials Meet With Experts For Solution to Building Collapse in Abuja

THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and experts in the building sector have met to address issues surrounding building collapse in Abuja.

This was made known to Journalists by the Director Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, in Abuja, on Wednesday,

The meet, he explained, was overseen by the FCTA’s Department of Development Control (DDC) and also broached on areas regarding abandoned structures and undeveloped plots.

“As a responsible organisation we have to be proactive in addressing the cases of building collapse, we have to work with professional bodies that are regulating agencies.

“We are exchanging views on how to stop the menace of building collapse in the Federal Capital Territory.

“The meeting will help us to constitute a committee that will make suggestions on tackling the issues, even in the past but this time around we are going to expand it.

“We will make it a continuous engagement, discussion and supervision.

“It will help us share responsibility as well as functionality,” Galadima said.

Also speaking, the Representative of the President Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Engr. Cyril Nwafor, reminded the National Assembly of the recommendations sent to the house in 2010, while advising the House to implement it.

He went further to disclose that the House was recommended to involve only registered professionals to handle projects and to ensure those behind failed projects are discipline.

The Architect Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON); the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) and several other professional bodies were also at the meeting.