From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha
In Onitsha, Anambra State yesterday, a four-storey building collapsed in the commercial city.
The building, which is yet to be completed, and located at 22, Nnewi Street, in Odoakpu community, consists of 14 flats and three shops.
But providence played a positive part, as people who normally work on the building site, had all closed for the day and gone home.
Sunday Sun learnt that no casualty was recorded in the incident, which happened at the wee hours of Saturday.
Mr Cletus Ezendo, an eyewitness and resident of Nnewi Street, said people in the neigbourhood were frightened when the building fell with a great noise and smoke oozing out from the rubble.
Ezendo said: “We rushed out only to discover that it was the uncompleted building, a pole from my resident, that fell flat. We thank God that nobody was living in the building yet and it happened when the workers constructing the fourth floor had completed their work and gone home.
“This morning, we learnt the collapsed building had affected a residential five-storey building close to it and had made cracks in that building.’
As at press time, some prospective tenants, who had already paid rent for the building, were seen worried over the recovery of their money.
Sunday Sun could not get the owner of the building or his contractor to ascertain exactly what led to the collapse of the building.
The High Cost Of Materials may course the problem . Country with out VISION
It is tragedy
We thank God no casualty was recorded. God is good!
……..”and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free”…… Whatsoever one sow, the same shall he reap!!! If and ony If the builders will tell themselves and the public the truth, I strongly belive that they all knows that the building will colapse as its formations are of sub-standard. Thank God no innocent person died or injured in the incident, however if ground needed blood i would have prefer that of if not all at least one of the builders and owner, that will sever as deterant for that will want to imitate.
Thank God no body died
Half baked
are the talking of recovering their money,the 4 thank God first that the never parking and also pity the owner.
When people will use a bag of cement to mold 50 blocks. What do they expect? The engineer and contractors should be held, to explain what happened. Thank God there were no loss of life.
Penny wise pounds finish
it’s a pity, building materials ‘re costly but if at all u want 2 build any residential or any building in particular, u should try to build with high quality building materials in order 2 protect life & property. God ‘ll refund u d money u invested in d course of building d house dt just collapsed. Dis is a lesson for other prospective builders. God save 9ja.
Thank God no body died, life is more precious than whatever.
God has a way of doing things.thank God that they havnt parked in. As 4 those that av paid,they shuld give d owner enuf time 2 pay cus its nt his fault.
When hav our people started building substandard way,?? This could be purely contractors error,but God hav really saved a lot of lives
Oh what a pity!
Thank God that no casualty was recorded.These days people seem to be dying like fowls and we cn’t afford to lose more people to death.The five-storey building that was affected should be properly given a maintenance touch before sth devastating happens again!
De contractor ought to be arrested
wrong soil test wud hv led to the collapse of the four storey building…thank God nobody died..
Na Onitsha level, they want 2 finish within 2 months.
thank God
The contractors are actually humans you know…so they shouldn’t be arrested jor
HIGH RISE BUILDINGS NEED PROPER SUPERVISION BY THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES FROM FOUNDATION BUT IN NIGERIA CORRUPTION IS THE ORDER. YOU CAN GET ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS WITHOUT THE AUTHORITIES EVEN VISITING THE SITE TALKLESS OF SATISFYING THE MATERIALS. ONLY JESUS CAN SAFE.
Something is wrong somewhere!
Glory be to God that no one died,am really happy for this.
careless contractors
De contractor should be thourougly interrogated on de circumstances that led to such disaster.
A solid building requires a solid foundation which is directly proportional to cost of production. Anything less than this will give you a shoddy foundation which will eventually collapse. This act is tantamount to greed and taking short cuts. Lets learn from the parable of Jesus Christ our best teacher about building and foundation (Luke 6:48, 49). Soup wey sweet na money kill amm!
To GOD be the that nobody die in the incidence. Though its big lost to the owner of the building but that should be a big lesson to him and other landlord so that whenevr they wants to build a public building, they should do that with a durable materials.
Thank God dat nobody die.those tenant dat have paid should go to church wit a biggest cow and fowl to give God as thanksgiving bcos life is better than everytin.chia i’m pity 4 the owner of the building all his money and effort prove abortive,oh God come 4 our aid we are nt save.
Its a shame , but thank God no live was lost.
As a fellow buider, i think the cause of the collapse resulted from improper design specification owing to poor contractors not following the standards provide by the BS-code or Euro code. Sometimes i dont doubt the reason for building failure in nigeria cos some building owners prefer cheap engineers leading to quack constrns. Well to God be the glory no casualty.
Glory be 2 GOD in d highest for d good job he did
Cos we los no body in dat insdent
why???
It is very unfortunate and painful that buildings are still collapsing killing innocent nigerians trying to earn a living despite the serious advise being giving by professionals in the built enviroment sector in different forums to the three tiers of govt in this country to prevent further collapses.The contractor is a business concern, he can be a dog or a goat but the building regulation law must make it mandatory that a PROFESSIONAL BUILDER whose training is to manage the process of construction as well as the supervision of artisans and craftsmen is engaged by the contractor before any construction work commences. This must be requested for before final approval is granted for any development. This is the only way someone can be held responsible when a building collapses.Without this, buildings will sadly continue to collapse in this country. The regulation of the construction process is a MUST if we MUST avert future collapses. Construction process management is a professional work and not all comers affairs. ENOUGH of the loss of lives, properties and disgrace to the country