Aba building collapse explained
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Barely few days after the collapse of a four-story building along Ngwa road, Aba, Abia State; a team of Association of Civil Engineers (ACE) members in the state, has described some buildings in the town as accidents waiting to happen.
The team, according to one of the members, was forced by current increase in building collapses in the city to embark on an emergency monitoring of buildings to ascertain their level of safety. The team also took the opportunity to visit new building sites in the city to ascertain the quality of materials being used in their construction.
In the process, many of the new buildings visited were given pass marks while some older ones were described as “mass graves”. According to the member, Chris Anameje, an engineer, such buildings could collapse any time.
Indeed, one of such buildings was a three-story building located at 16 Nwala Street. Chris Anameje, while speaking to Factnews described the building as a serious danger to residents. He promised that his team would make every effort possible to reach the owner of the building and to advise him on how best to save it from future collapse.
To occupants of the building, which he described as another possible “mass grave” he warned them that as a matter of urgency, they should evacuate the building as their continued residency there would be putting their lives in danger.
Similarly, he said the team would advise other owners of such buildings in the city to embark on a total renovation and reinforcement of their buildings or to have them permanently demolished in order to build new ones; so as to avert possible future occurrence of building collapses that could lead to the death of their tenants.
It would be recalled that Executive Governor of the State, Theodore Orji, was once forced to halt his official visit to Abuja to attend to a victim of similar incident at Agbama Housing Estate in Umuahia, the state capital.
The Governor had described the incident as unfortunate and pledged 500,000 to help the victims cater for their hospital bills.
Onyebuchi Jonas, a resident of Aba who spoke to Factnews, blamed the recent increase in building collapses on private developers who engaged quarks in bid to save cost. “They resort to using fake and cheap building materials which results in the menace we witness today” he said.
Source: christain David
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