The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to effect the arrest of executive secretary of the Federal capital development Authority (FCDA), Mr. Richard Dauda, over alleged breach of building Code.
The Committee has further requested the arrest of the Director, Department of Development Control (FCTA), Mr. Muktar Galadima, and the Director of Regional Planning of the FCT.
The Chairman of the Committee, Mike Etaba, had earlier in the week warned the affected officials to honour the Committee’s invitation over the alleged breach, or face the consequences.
He insisted Thursday that the decision to issue the warrant of arrest on the aforementioned officials was in tandem with the extant provisions of the Legislative Houses Powers and Privileges Act of 2017.
He said, “We had a petition that was brought before us by a Nigerian citizen in the course of investigation, FCDA has refused to come and tender documents necessary for us to proceed with this investigation. But for today we have come to the site where the petition is referring to.
“We have looked at the building plans and the engineer in site who we met, known as Mr. Emmanuel who we met told the committee that there is no approved building plan with him right now. We have looked at the structure, the landmark, the cantilever that the complainant, who is a Nigerian, has a right to his security and safety.
“We have looked at it and we would go back and ask for more documents, especially the approved plan so that the FCDA would be able to explain to us the guideline they gave for this building to be able to determine what is actually good for this site and let Nigerians living around here have their peace We’re here to do justice to everybody.”