The Rivers State Government has commenced an investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a two-storey building in the state.
PUNCH METRO reported that the incident injured no fewer than four persons on Rumuoke Street, off Okilton Junction, Ada George Road, in the Port Harcourt area of the state.
In a statement released by his media assistant, Boniface Onyedi, the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, urged the appropriate government agencies to immediately find individuals engaged in the project and stated the state government must determine the immediate and long-term causes of the incident.
The statement read in part, “The Ministry of Urban Development is to take immediate action by conducting site investigations and site inspections.
“The destructive testing and non-destructive testing of collapsed structural elements to establish their strength by the determination of the yield strength of the reinforcements and sieve analysis of the soil at the site, to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the building collapse.
“If there is any compromise by those involved in the project, they will be prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others.”
Fabura expressed sympathy for the four injured guys and said the physicians attending to them assured him that they will be released from the hospital in a few days as their conditions were already stable.
He said that the site had been sealed off and that the authorities had hurriedly dispatched earth-moving machinery to the scene to remove the building’s wreckage.
