A family of six on Wednesday escaped death following the collapse of a two-story building at Amawbia bypass, Awka South Local Government Area.
When the ABS arrived the scene of the incident, it gathered that the building owned by an Engineer, totally collapsed on a residential building and a shop.
Correspondent, Emmanuel Okonkwo reports that amongst the six members of the trapped family, four sustained minor injuries while two were seriously injured and hospitalized.
ABS also observed that properties and goods worth over a million naira were also lost to the incident.
According to the Head of the trapped family Mr. Augustine Ikeji, who thanked God for saving his family especially his two years old daughter, who was buried by the debris, the incident happened around eleven o’clock in the night.
On her part, the landlady of the affected residential building, Mrs. Amaka Okonkwo, a widow and the shop owner, whose goods were trapped by the collapsed building, Mr. Sunday Nwaezi blamed the incident on substandard materials, unveiling that the building started to give signs of collapse before its completion. Ub
A tenant, Lady Ogechukwu Ndu frowned at the action of the collapsed building owner, whom she said absconded on hearing the incident, appealed to the state government to take action against him to serve as a deterrent to other substandard builders.
Speaking during his visit to the scene of the incident, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, ACTDA, Venerable Amaechi Okwuosa described it as unfortunate, pointing out that the building was built without adequate approval from ASUDEB.
Venerable Okwuosa, who revoked the ownership of the land said, it now belongs to Anambra State Government as contained in relevant sections of the state laws on building collapse.
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