Synagogue Building Collapse: Senate Moves To Avert Further Disasters

By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah

Piqued by the incessant building collapse in the country with the recent collapse of Synagogue Church building in Lagos which claimed over 115 lives, the Senate has mandated its Committee on Housing   to organise a sensitisation public hearing on this menace.

The upper chamber also urged federal and states Ministries of Land and Survey, Standard Organisation of Nigeria and other regulatory agencies to wake up and ensure compliance with building rules and regulations.

The Senate also urged all the rescue operations agencies in the country including NEMA, Fire Service, Red Cross, Nigerian Police, Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to always be at alert in order to rescue victims in similar incidences.

The resolutions were sequel to an adoption of a motion sponsored by Senator Adbulmumin Hassan (Jigawa South West) under the title “The alarming rate of building collapse in Nigeria.”

In the motion, Senator Hassan observed that the rate at which buildings were collapsing in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of the country were alarming and quite worrisome.

He added that aside from claiming the lives of innocent citizens and foreigners, the frequent building collapse have also led to the loss of property worth billions of naira.

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