Prof. Yohanna Izam, the President of the Nigerian Institute of Builders (NIB), has attributed the spate of building collapse in the country to poor regulations and infiltration of substandard building materials in the country.
Izam, who is also the Vice Chancellor, Plateau State University, Bokkos, said this on Sunday in Jos.
The president, also said that poor standardisation and quality assurance in both materials and manpower had over time contributed to the rise in building collapse.
Izam decried the high patronage of quacks by clients, adding that the building site had become one of the most unregulated factories in Nigeria.
”The number of building collapse has become quite alarming for a country like Nigeria, given the fact that it had become a phenomenon
”But there is the poor regulation of the construction industry in Nigeria to the extent that we think that the building site is the most unregulated factory in this country.
”The manifestation or display of quackery is huge and this is why in many sites of building collapse, you will see that quackery was on display and all these boil down to poor regulations.
”Another key challenge is the infiltration of substandard building materials in our markets; every single building material in Nigeria has two, three or even four different versions,”he said.
