The Federal Government and the residents of Abaji community have debunked rumours being peddled round that an earth tremor occurred in that part of the FCT, Abuja on Friday
The Director, Regional Geology at the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency, Dr Oladimeji Gboyega who led a team of journalists and experts to the purported epicentre to confirm said findings have shown that nothing like that happened.
A post on social media by an Ibadan based professor (name withheld) last Friday claimed that an tremor occurred at Abaji.
Dr Gboyega said since none of the seismometers monitoring the area did not record any such event, and the inhabitants of the epicentre community have confirmed that nothing happened, “it tells you that there was nothing like tremor”.
The Acting Head, Department of Physics, University of Abuja, Dr Gala Nyam, who confirmed to newsmen in the University’s control room said there was no such incident captured in the 4 seismometers within the area to monitor such earth movement, said when they heard of the development, they rushed to check and discovered instrument has no record of such event.
“So nothing has happened in Abuja as far as this instrument is concerned, it has not given us any signal around here to show that there was a tremor in Abuja.
“How can Ife, imagine the distance from here to Ife, and the same equipment recording an event that occurred in Abuja and ours will not pick it up, including the equipment at NGSA, I think the assertion is baseless,” he said.
While the addressing the team of journalists and experts from NGSA at his palace, the Ona (paramount Chief) of Abaji, Adamu Baba Yunusa, said nothing like that happened within his Chiefdom that he or his subjects were aware of.
A landlord, Abdulkarim Mohammed, who was met relaxing in his house expressed surprise on hearing about the rumour. He said “This is where I live, this is my house but I can tell you that nothing like that happened that I know or have heard.”
The members of the community who expressed shock at rumoured tremor said there was no tremor.
Mai angwa, Alh. Yusuf Yunisa said “We didn’t experience anything like the earth shaking here. If there was any such movement, you would have even noticed some cracks in some buildings here.”
