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| Ms Amal Pepple, Minister of Housing |
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Ms
Amal Pepple has once again charged the Council of Registered Builders of
Nigeria, CORBON to go after those responsible for building collapse by ensuring
on the issue of National Building Code, NBC.
Pepple gave the charge this afternoon when she
inaugurated the 5th board of the CORBON at the Federal Ministry of
Lands, Housing and Urban Development, FMLHUD headquarters in Mabushi, Abuja.
The minister said, “I hope you are working on the
building code. It is important to impose sanction on those who are responsible
for collapse, they should be penalized. If there is no sanction, we are still
going to be where we are.”
She also charged CORBON on the need to tackle
unhealthy practices which she enumerated to include: lack of safety standards
on building sites, use of inferior building materials, poor house quality and
design, prevalence of unskilled artisans and non-professionals and lack of
maintenance standards.
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| A newly-constructed building in Abuja |
“These anomalies have lingered on for a considerable
time because of the failure of professional and regulatory bodies to be
committed to the achievement of the highest professional standards in the
building industry,” she said.
Responding, the chairman of CORBON, Prof Kabir Bala
said they are going to do everything within the ambit of the law to justify the
confidence reposed in them on the appointment. He said the responsibilities
given them are enormous and critical to the development of the economy. “The
housing sector is critical to the transformation agenda of government.”
CORBON is established to regulate and control the
practice of the building profession in all its aspects and ramifications in
Nigeria.
