Graduate labourer, one other killed at Abuja construction site
Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:19:am Gist
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Two people have been killed and another injured at a construction site in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The incident, which sources claimed was a landslide, occurred at about 4pm on Tuesday at Plot 3333, Mississippi Street, AO6 District, Maitama.
A visit to the scene indicated that construction work was still at foundation level, while the site is gully-like.
A university graduate working as a labourer, Godwin Dominic, and a fellow worker on the constructions site were of the victims of the collapse.
An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the newsmen that construction workers were on site when the walk-way caved in and three persons were buried in the rubble.
"They were trying to build a restraining wall and in the process the walk-way collapsed. The approval for the site was given to Simag Construction Company by the Development Control, an arm of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA)," he said.
He said the site engineer has been arrested by the police.
Although, It was gathered that the site has approval, the plot is said to be among those being probed by the Senate.
The FCT Fire Service Acting Comptroller, Mr Julius Opetunsin, who confirmed the incident, told journalists that his men moved to the site immediately the office received a distress call.
"About a few minutes after 4pm yesterday, there was a call from the emergency call centre, so one of our officers in charge of Search and Rescue Department of FEMA, informing him that there was a collapsed building at Mississippi Street, Maitama. Immediately he contacted me, It turned out an emergency tender from the headquarters here to the scene of the incident," he said.
The incident, which sources claimed was a landslide, occurred at about 4pm on Tuesday at Plot 3333, Mississippi Street, AO6 District, Maitama.
A visit to the scene indicated that construction work was still at foundation level, while the site is gully-like.
A university graduate working as a labourer, Godwin Dominic, and a fellow worker on the constructions site were of the victims of the collapse.
An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the newsmen that construction workers were on site when the walk-way caved in and three persons were buried in the rubble.
"They were trying to build a restraining wall and in the process the walk-way collapsed. The approval for the site was given to Simag Construction Company by the Development Control, an arm of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA)," he said.
He said the site engineer has been arrested by the police.
Although, It was gathered that the site has approval, the plot is said to be among those being probed by the Senate.
The FCT Fire Service Acting Comptroller, Mr Julius Opetunsin, who confirmed the incident, told journalists that his men moved to the site immediately the office received a distress call.
"About a few minutes after 4pm yesterday, there was a call from the emergency call centre, so one of our officers in charge of Search and Rescue Department of FEMA, informing him that there was a collapsed building at Mississippi Street, Maitama. Immediately he contacted me, It turned out an emergency tender from the headquarters here to the scene of the incident," he said.
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