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and at Old Market Road in Owerri municipal council. The two-storey buildings which were still under construction collapsed over the weekend.LEADERSHIP visited one of the locations at Old Market Road, and observed that the state government had cordoned off the environment.
The special adviser to the governor and general manager of Owerri Capital Development Area, Hon Francis Chukwu, who visited the scene of one of the collapsed buildings at Emekuku ordered a probe into the incident. A statement from his office reads, “The determination and uncompromising position of the State Government through its Development Control Agency – Owerri Capital Development Authority – OCDA towards the enforcement of standards in building construction activities played out yesterday following the collapse of an ongoing two-storey building on Old Market road Owerri which its construction was stopped by OCDA in November, 2022.
Confirming the collapse of the structure, Francis Chukwu disclosed that the agency had earlier stopped the construction of the building during one of its routine operational activities after operatives of OCDA had discovered the inadequacies in the building construction process.
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