FG speaks on earth tremor in Abuja

The Nigeria Geological Survey Agency has advised the public to disregard report of tremor in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

The Ditector-General of the agency, Abdulrazaq Garba urged the author the report to come further with evidence which the agency can agree or disagree to.

“So far, from our records and equipment, there is no record of earth tremor within the FCT.

“Our believe is that the author of the publication, with all the information he has, should come forward to the agency as it is done in other countries.

“By doing this, we can compare notes and look at the data and then access and evaluate it and know if there was actually an earth tremor in those areas,” Garba added.

He further stated had no report of such tremor that happened at Abaji and Gwagwalada areas of the FCT.

“We have a station in the University of Abuja in Gwagwalada, and the officer in charge who heads the University’s Physics Department has said there was no such record.

“We even question people around Abaji and Gwagwalada and there was no report of such, unlike before when we will receive calls from people when such thing happened,” he said.

He added that the agency has not received any other reprot on the tremor apart from that by the author.

“I really don’t know where he got his information from, we have tried to get in contact with him through the same platform he used to push out his information to no avail,” Garba said