One
person was confirmed dead while an undisclosed number of artisans were
reportedly trapped when a three- storey building collapsed at about 9pm
Sunday night, in Owerri, Imo State.
Vanguard
investigations revealed that some of the workers engaged by the
landlord and contractor of the ill-fated house were resting in the
building when it crumbled.
It
was also gathered that the dead man, Mr. Joseph Bassey Ekandem, a
28-year-old carpenter was an only child of his parents who hailed from
Cross Rivers State.
Speaking
to Vanguard at the scene of the gory incident, the Executive Secretary
of Imo State Emergency Management Agency, ISEMA, Mrs. Uche Ezeonyeasi,
expressed shock that the landlord and his contractor upon hearing about
the incident, visited the scene and simply locked the gate and vanished
into the thin air.
Ezeonyeasi
said there was nothing to show that the landlord or his contractor
reported the incident to the police, State Security Service, SSS or
ISEMA.
She
lamented that because the state government did not have the needed
equipment to handle such a disaster, its only option was to engage the
services of contracting firms to assist in the rescue operation.
The
state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Baba Bolanta, who appeared
short of words, simply said: “We will go after the landlord and his
contractor. They must give account of what happened here.”
At
the time of going to press, a combined team of Nigerian Security and
Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, police, army, State Security Service, Red
Cross and sympathizers were still busy digging through the rubbles in
search of other workers.
Vanguard Nigeria
One
person was confirmed dead while an undisclosed number of artisans were
reportedly trapped when a three- storey building collapsed at about 9pm
Sunday night, in Owerri, Imo State.
Vanguard
investigations revealed that some of the workers engaged by the
landlord and contractor of the ill-fated house were resting in the
building when it crumbled.
It
was also gathered that the dead man, Mr. Joseph Bassey Ekandem, a
28-year-old carpenter was an only child of his parents who hailed from
Cross Rivers State.
Speaking
to Vanguard at the scene of the gory incident, the Executive Secretary
of Imo State Emergency Management Agency, ISEMA, Mrs. Uche Ezeonyeasi,
expressed shock that the landlord and his contractor upon hearing about
the incident, visited the scene and simply locked the gate and vanished
into the thin air.
Ezeonyeasi
said there was nothing to show that the landlord or his contractor
reported the incident to the police, State Security Service, SSS or
ISEMA.
She
lamented that because the state government did not have the needed
equipment to handle such a disaster, its only option was to engage the
services of contracting firms to assist in the rescue operation.
The
state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Baba Bolanta, who appeared
short of words, simply said: “We will go after the landlord and his
contractor. They must give account of what happened here.”
At
the time of going to press, a combined team of Nigerian Security and
Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, police, army, State Security Service, Red
Cross and sympathizers were still busy digging through the rubbles in
search of other workers.
Vanguard Nigeria
One
person was confirmed dead while an undisclosed number of artisans were
reportedly trapped when a three- storey building collapsed at about 9pm
Sunday night, in Owerri, Imo State.
Vanguard
investigations revealed that some of the workers engaged by the
landlord and contractor of the ill-fated house were resting in the
building when it crumbled.
It
was also gathered that the dead man, Mr. Joseph Bassey Ekandem, a
28-year-old carpenter was an only child of his parents who hailed from
Cross Rivers State.
Speaking
to Vanguard at the scene of the gory incident, the Executive Secretary
of Imo State Emergency Management Agency, ISEMA, Mrs. Uche Ezeonyeasi,
expressed shock that the landlord and his contractor upon hearing about
the incident, visited the scene and simply locked the gate and vanished
into the thin air.
Ezeonyeasi
said there was nothing to show that the landlord or his contractor
reported the incident to the police, State Security Service, SSS or
ISEMA.
She
lamented that because the state government did not have the needed
equipment to handle such a disaster, its only option was to engage the
services of contracting firms to assist in the rescue operation.
The
state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Baba Bolanta, who appeared
short of words, simply said: “We will go after the landlord and his
contractor. They must give account of what happened here.”
At
the time of going to press, a combined team of Nigerian Security and
Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, police, army, State Security Service, Red
Cross and sympathizers were still busy digging through the rubbles in
search of other workers.
Vanguard Nigeria
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