Anambra govt to examine students hostels in Oko, vows to prosecute owner of collapsed building

The Anambra State Government says it volition embark connected structural integrity tests connected each commercialized buildings wrong Oko and Amaokpala to ascertain their information and durability.

This follows the illness of a three-storey gathering successful Amaokpala, arsenic good arsenic different akin incidents recorded wrong Orumba North Local Government Area.

In a nationalist connection signed by the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Chijioke Ojukwu, the ministry expressed heavy sorrow implicit the tragic incident, extended its heartfelt condolences to the families of those who mislaid their lives, and prayed for the afloat and speedy betterment of the injured persons who were rescued and are receiving aesculapian care.

Mr. Ojukwu stated that the tract of the collapsed operation had been sealed pending a afloat and thorough investigation, adding that the authorities would not relent successful ensuring the prosecution of those whose negligence led to the incident.

He said preliminary assessments constituent to structural nonaccomplishment arsenic the apt origin of the collapse, insisting that this was a information known to the owners and absorption of the building, yet they placed ...