Four people were saved from a collapsed wall in Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, as confirmed by FCT Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, which has reported the deaths of two as well.

This was confirmed by Dr Abbas Idriss, the Director-General of FEMA, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.

He said: “Around between 10 a.m to 11 a.m., we received a distress call that there was a building collapse beside the United Bank for Africa Bank (UBA) at Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, Wuse II.

“We quickly activated our rescue team to go there and on getting there they saw it was a wall that fell on artisans working around the area. So far six people were removed from the rabbles and two have died while four are in the hospital at the moment.

“It is a building under construction and they have eaten into the building next to them because it is not their building that fell it is the neighbour’s building that felt on them.”

He urged the Department of Development Control, Department of Engineering Services, and other agencies, which are charged with the duty of approving building projects in the FCT, to make sure that they properly approve and oversee construction projects everywhere.

“That is the only way to guard against the situation because the approval is supposed to be in phases as you give approval in phase one, when they do according to the specification you now give them approval for the second phase that is how it should be.

“But if you give a blanket approval to just go and start the building they can build with whatever material they can. However, in this case, like I said earlier, we are not talking about usage of inferior materials.

“It is because they extended their building and eating into the neighbourhood structure, which eventually collapsed on the artisans,” said the FEMA chief executive.