By Michael Nnebife
A bad omen is staring a large number of building owners in Anambra State in the face, as the state’s Physical Planning Board has concluded arrangements to embark on massive demolition of illegal structures across the state.
The Managing Director of the Board, Barr Chike Maduekwe, who disclosed this in a media programme in Awka recently, said the exercise would begin by the end of July this year.
The Managing Director therefore, appealed to building owners across the state who were building without the board’s approval, to approach the board’s office with their building plans for the approval before a given grace period elapsed.
‘We have given the building owners a grace period within this month (May) and July.
‘Anybody that has no approval should go and get it now. Once the government gives us the resources, from end of July, every building without approval, we are bringing all of them down,’ Barr Maduekwe said.
Maduekwe, who was speaking in the wake of the proposed Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by the Federal Government, noted that Nigeria had a building code, which, he said, had to be faithfully followed by the developers.
He enjoined the developers to have professionals recognized by a regulatory body to ensure that the houses to be built followed the Building Code of Nigeria.
