Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State on Thursday ordered an urgent probe into the immediate and remote causes of the collapsed building at Rumuoke Street, off Okilton junction on Ada George Road, Port Harcourt.
Four people were injured in the incident.
According to a statement by Senior Special Adviser, SSA, Media to the Governor of Rivers State, Boniface Onyedi, the governor spoke after the inspection of the collapsed 2-storey building in Port Harcourt.
The statement said: “ Governor Fubara represented by the Commissioner for Special Projects, Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke, charged the relevant government agencies to immediately question those involved in the project to bring anyone culpable to book.
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“According to the governor, the Ministry of Urban Development is to take immediate action by conducting site investigations, and site inspections, destructive testing and non-destructive testing of collapsed structural element 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, he also emphasised.
“While sympathizing with the four injured men whom he visited at the hospital, the doctors treating them also assured him that they will be discharged in a few days as they were already in stable condition.
“He said the government has urgently mobilised earth-moving equipment to the site to evacuate the debris of the collapsed building, as the site has been cordoned off,” the statement added.
