The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Department FEMD says at least seven people have been confirmed dead in the building collapse in the Sabon Lugbe South District of Abuja.
The Public Relations Officer of the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Department Mrs Nkechi Isa said many other occupants of the building sustained injuries.
Mrs Isa denied that the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, the agency responsible for urban planning and development in Abuja, had commenced the demolition of the building with bulldozers.
She said unauthorized scavenging, not the official demolition, likely led to the collapse.
She explained scavengers who were trying to steal iron from the building’s foundation caused the collapse.
She said the Scavengers were using mallets to strike pillars, attempting to extract the metal Pillars that were holding the building up and the building simply gave way.
She said the building’s owners had sold the structure to scavengers.
You will recall that before the collapse, the FCT minister Nyesom Wike had ordered the immediate demolition of unauthorized structures within the Sabon Lugbe South District.
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