FCTA to demolish abandoned uncompleted building in Abuja

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7 years ago

THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), is set to demolish abandoned uncompleted one storey building located within Nile Street, in the Maitama District of the nation’s capital city, for purportedly failing integrity test, as part of measures to ease building collapse disasters.

The Director, Development Control Department (DCD) of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Murktar Galadima, who led top management team on inspection and enforcement exercise around the Federal Capital City (FCC), insisted that there was no remedial measure that could be taken by anyone to protect the abandoned building,

He disclosed that the structure should be removed within one week to avert possible disaster, saying the Department had engaged a consultant which carried out the integrity test on the building, which later revealed that it failed integrity test, thereby, posing serious mortal dangers to people living and doing business around the area.

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“This is an abandoned structure within the Maitama District, it has been abandoned for a long time and unfortunately people are living inside the building.

“We have conducted integrity test, which the building failed, so we are here to warn whoever that is staying here to vacate the place, to enable us to do the needful-which is pull down the structure.

“We engaged a consultant that carried out the integrity test on the building, and now we are communicating to the owner of the building that the structure having failed integrity test, we are removing it.

“We have told the people living or doing business inside and within the premises should immediately vacate the site, and failure to do so, they would be arrested and prosecuted accordingly.

“From the visual sighting, you can see that this building cannot stand the test of time. There is no remedial measure that one can take to safeguard the structure. So, within a week’s time, we will remove the structure,” he insisted.