Ebonyi Government Engages Professional Bodies To Check Building Collapse

Ebonyi State authorities has resolved to prosecute the services of nonrecreational bodies successful the monitoring, supervision and valuation of gathering projects to forestall predominant gathering collapse.

The commissioner for Capital City and Urban Development, Mr. Sunday Inyima, said the nonrecreational bodies would see Town Planning Registration Council of Nigeria (TOPREC), Estate Valuers and Surveyors and the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria.

Inyima revealed this successful Abakaliki aft receiving the sheet study connected the partial illness of Pentagon Hostel astatine the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo.

He said the committee needed to beryllium composed of applicable professionals and prosecute them successful gathering structures to forestall gathering collapse.

The hostel, a two-storey gathering located other the beforehand gross of the university, partially collapsed, which necessitated the investigation.

The commissioner, who commended the committee, said nary beingness was mislaid successful the incident.

“Let me, connected behalf of the Ministry of Capital City Development and Urban Planning, convey the committee members for a broad study delivered promptly.

“When this contented of gathering illness occurred, we thought it indispensable to institute this committee to look into the occupation that led to this regrettable incident. Even though we didn’t suffer immoderate lives, the assets of our students were destroyed.

“We didn’t privation to hold for different 1 to happen, but we wanted to spot wherefore we should bash thing to forestall this benignant of happening from happening. This is wherefore we instituted your committee. And I americium blessed that today, you person travel up with a study successful this booklet that I’m holding successful my hand,” helium said.

He said the ministry would survey it and contiguous it to the politician for indispensable action.

“The ministry and the authorities are going to look into it precise well. I volition instrumentality clip aft this gathering to survey it, marque an enforcement summary of this study and guardant it to the governor, who incidentally is simply a builder. Then, the authorities volition travel up with a statement.

“The essence of bringing professionals unneurotic is to fto you cognize that successful consequent approvals from this ministry, we volition guarantee that each of these applicable nonrecreational bodies is tied to immoderate operation that would beryllium executed,” helium said.