Housing Development Advocacy network has called on fct minister to keep his promise of prosecuting FCDA and FHA officials and developers of collapsed abuja building.The Leading NGO in a statement on Saturday commended that decision of FCT minister
festus adebayo the executive director,further said that HDAN is ready to go to court if FCDA do not act on his promise.He said , those involved should be charged for manslaughter having lost three lives of construction workers
The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello has on Saturday through the coordinator of Abuja metropolitan management council ( AMMC)said he has directed security agencies to arrest the officials of Federal Housing Authority and the developer over the collapse of the suspended two-storey building in Abuja.
The Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Umar Shuaibu, made the disclosure at news briefing on Saturday.
The coordinator also said that the minister asked the security personnel to arrest the FHA officer in charge of granting the development permit and the engineer supervising the development for alleged manslaughter.
The building, under construction, collapsed at about 11a.m. on Thursday, at 6th Avenue in Gwarimpa Estate, trapped 24 persons, three were confirmed dead while 21 persons had been rescued alive.
The minister, during a visit to the same of the incident,commiserated with the families of the victims and residents of the FCT over the unfortunate incident.
Represented by the Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Shehu Ahmad, Bello said, “this is coming at a time when we are all trying as a nation to come out of this worrisome situation of building collapse.
“These are issues which the FCT environment was not prominent with, but because of some activities of quackery, this has come into the FCT and the FCT is not too happy with these happenings.”
The minister recalled that it was the third time such an incident happened at the Gwarinpa Estate.
Reacting to this development , HDAN through its Executive Director said it is time develop the political will to punish offenders of building collapse.We av visited the site and what we saw in the area is too bad .We are waiting for FCDA to keep its promise of prosecuting the culpits.
HDAN through its Director , festus Adebayo said it time to create a full department in FCDA for Building Inspectorates
He stated that the FCTA would stop at no limit to identify those involved in the unfortunate development.The roles of Builders is seriously required to support those in urban planning, he said
