Building regulatory agencies have been warned that the Federal Government will not allow collapse buildings under its upcoming mass housing project.
This was revealed by the Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, on Thursday at the 6th Annual Building and Construction Economic Roundtable organised by the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria with the theme, “Professional issues and challenges in building collapse in Nigeria,” at Abuja.
Fashola who was represented by a director in the ministry, Samah Mohammed said that building collapse was as a result of greed and the want to make excessive profits by parties involved.
He said, “The Federal Government is undertaking the most ambitious housing programme ever witnessed in this country and our desire is to provide housing for all economic segments of the citizenry.”
“As we embark on this programme of providing housing for Nigerians, government insists on zero-tolerance for building collapse.”
“As such, agencies of government charged with enforcement of standards, professionalism, regulations and discipline must ensure that no single incident of building collapse is witnessed anywhere in the country under the Federal Government Housing Programme,” Fashola warned.
