The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has said that the license and approval granted to developers of collapsed buildings will be revoked.
Rescue operations have however continued at the site of the building that collapsed at the Life Camp area of the nation’s capital on Monday.
The FCTA also disclosed that only nine persons have been rescued, with six already discharged from the hospital, while three are still receiving medical attention.
This is against the backdrop of earlier media reports that several persons were trapped in the rubble of the collapsed building.
The Permanent Secretary, FCTA Olusade Adesola who led other management staff of the Administration, said that the building under construction was approved as three and not six-storey as peddled in some sections of the media.
He also noted that the building was still on its first suspended floor, going to the second floor before the unfortunate incident.
”From the report making round that a six-storey building collapse in Abuja, is not six-storey building, a property that is at the first suspended floor going to the second suspended floor.
”The building was approved for three-storey building, so we should not sensationalize the misfortune of others”.
Also Speaking, Director, Department of Development Control, Muktar Galadima disclosed that the developers contravened several building codes and also violated the building approval given to them.
Galadima also noted that after due diligence investigation, both the developers and staff who are found culpable will be prosecuted in accordance with extant laws.
