No fewer than six people have been confirmed dead after a three-storey building collapsed at Ochanja market
The incident occurred at Woliwo Street Fegge Onitsha , Anambra state on Monday night, February 26.
Impeccable source told National Insight that the building, collapsed at about 6:32pm last night
According to the Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, six persons have been confirmed dead in the incident while 20 other persons were rescued with various levels of injuries.
Some of the workers at the site who escaped death gave an estimate of fifty workers who were working at the site at the time of the collapse.
The governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has vowed to jail all those involved in the construction of the building that collapsed in Ochanja Market, Onitsha, the state’s commercial hub on A visibly angry Governor Soludo said he was not aware that such building was being constructed in the market when he visited the site of the collapsed building
He vowed to investigate the incident to determine those responsible for the construction of the ill-fated building
He said, “When investigations are completed, the developer, the chairman of the market and every other person involved in the disaster will be prosecuted and jailed.
“The remaining building under construction by the developers near the collapsed one will be demolished immediately after the rescue operations on the site has been completed,” Soludo said.
He handed down instruction that any plan to construct any building in any market in the state must first get his approval, otherwise such structure would be demolished.He also instructed that integrity test should be conducted on all buildings in markets across the state to confirm their structural and engineering suitability, adding that any building that failed integrity qualification should be demolished.
