A member of the House dropped the hint last week while paying commiserating with the victims of a collapsed building.
Mr. Kene Chukwuemeka, representing Awka South, said that early passage of a bill on urban planning and housing would adequately tackle the rising spate of building collapse in the state.
Chukwuemeka, appealed to the staff of the state’s Ministries of Urban Planning, Environment and Lands/Survey to step up action on their supervision of buildings and other structures in the state.
According to him, “the state Assembly is currently working on a law to streamline the supervision of constructions in the state. There must be a building commission/board to ensure that only certified materials and qualified hands supervise constructions in the state. There must be control and each building must have an approved plan.
“I called on the Anambra State Urban Development Board to step-up its supervision of constructions all over the state.”
Chukwuemeka in whose constituency the two-storey building collapsed on March 2, 2012 said if the supervision were intensified any such incidence would be averted.
Two out of the twelve workers died in the incident while about eight sustained various degrees of injuries and were hospitalised.
He went to the Regina Caeli Hospital and Amaku General Hospital, both in Awka where he sympathised with the injured, who were hospitalised there. He assisted them in paying some of their medical bills.
Meanwhile, construction works on the multi-million-naira NUJ Press Center, in Awka appears to have recommenced as publisher of Orient Newspaper and Magazine, Mr. Goddy Ezeemo, last week promised to complete the two-storey building within the shortest possible period.
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