To forestall increasing cases of building collapse in the country, the Senate has promised a speedy passage of all necessary legal frameworks on the revised National Building Code.

Senate President Bukola Saraki gave the assurance, while declaring open the public hearing by the Senate Committee on Lands, Housing and Urban Development on “The Need to Prosecute Building Laws Violators”.

The Upper Legislative Chamber according to Saraki, who was represented by the Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, would also employ more aggressive oversight scheme.

He noted that the forum would help the legislature to “provide a platform to undertake a detailed and thorough investigation with the engagement of all the relevant stakeholders with a view of finding possible and lasting solution to these preventable housing disasters.

“Working together we will all rid our country of this menace, if not in its entirety but bring to the barest minimum the occurrence of these disasters and also very importantly purge the construction industry of all forms of unsafe and negligent acts in the construction processes”.

Lawan added that Nigerians had in recent times endured unacceptable incidences of building collapse, which have sadly claimed the lives of a number of our citizens, lamenting that “many cases of building collapses have been recorded with about many lives lost, yet very few people are held responsible”.