According to a panic Alert sent out by a man identified as Aliyu Ma’aji on Facebook, tremors were experienced in some parts of Abuja yesterday and this has created panic in the hearts of the residents in the area.
The tremors were reportedly triggered by explosions in the Mpape Hills and these have been affecting the surrounding buildings with most of them shaking to their foundations.
Read Aliyu’s report;
“HAPPENING NOW!!
MORE THAN 15 MASSIVE TREMORS FOLLOWED BY LOUD MUFFLED RUMBLING EXPLOSIONS HAVE BEEN ROCKING MPAPE HILLS, STRETCHING ALL THE WAY TO BRIGADE OF GUARDS AND POLO CLUB/BEHIND ASO VILLA AREAS OF ABUJA IN THE PAST FEW HOURS!
OUR HOMES ARE SHAKING UP TO THEIR FOUNDATIONS. MANY BUILDINGS WILL DEFINITELY SUFFER STRUCTURAL DAMAGE!
QUARRY OPERATORS DOTTING THE AREAS ARE CLAIMING IGNORANCE. THE POLICE DO NOT SEEM TO KNOW ANYTHING. RESIDENTS ARE BEGINNING TO PANIC!
THE LAST TIME I HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS WAS IN LAGOS WHEN IKEJA CANTONMENT ARMOURY EXPLODED!
WE NEED ANSWERS URGENTLY BEFORE A MASSIVE STAMPEDE BREAK OUT !!!
HELP SHARE THIS WIDELY TILL THIS POST REACHES THE AUTHORITIES!!”
It would be recalled that the Senate has called on the National Emergency Management Agency and other relevant government agencies to begin to take proactive measures on the repeated earth tremor in some parts of Kaduna State.
The measures, the Senate said, included educating Nigerians on what to expect and how to react when tremor occurs.While adopting a three-prayer motion sponsored by Senator Danjuma La’ah (APC, Kaduna-South) titled ‘Earth Tremor and the Preparedness of Nigeria to Deal with its Intending Consequences,’ the Senate urged all stakeholders to take the earth tremor being recorded in parts of the country seriously.
The lawmakers also urged NEMA and security agencies to intervene through public enlightenment and drills to be prepared, saying minimal resources would be required at the warning stage.
The Senate mandated the Committee on Environment and Solid Minerals to make a fact-finding tour of the affected communities and report to the chamber.
La’ah, while moving his motion, stated that he was saddened that the tremor had left in its trail a traumatic experience to the inhabitants of Kwoi and its environs. He added that the tremor had also caused serious cracks in buildings, thereby making their habitation fearful and dangerous.
The Senator recalled that the first widely reported occurrence of an earth tremor in Nigeria was in 1933. He said other tremors were reported in 1939,1964, 1984, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2000 and 2006.
La’ah further recalled that following the tremor that occurred on September 11, 2009 which was recorded in Oyo and other parts of the South-West and with the recent ones in Bayelsa and Kaduna states, researchers had warned that the incidences were signs that Nigeria was no longer immune to earthquake.
According to the senator, the Lagos-Ibadan-Ijebu-Ode fault system was another belt where an earth tremor was witnessed in July and August 1984, stressing that these fault system could serve as a zone of weakness for the propagation of shocks from far away plate boundaries.
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