No fewer
than five people were injured on Thursday when an ongoing 10,000-seater
cathedral project of the Immaculate Catholic Cathedral Church in
Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, collapsed.
The
Cathedral Administrator, Rev. Anthony Akande, said the accident occurred
when the workers were on break. He said he was thankful to God that no
live was lost.
He
explained that eight engineers were supervising the project. He added
that a team of visiting engineers from Abuja, last week, gave a pass
mark to the work already carried out.
He said the collapse of the building was rather unfortunate and surprising.
The Kogi
State Deputy Governor, Mr. Yomi Awoniyi, who was at the site of the
accident, ordered that further work on the project be stopped pending
the submission of report by the committee set up by government to
establish the cause of the collapse.
He stated that the collapse of the building was unfortunate.
According
to him, the building collapse could have been caused by several factors,
which, he said, would be unraveled at the end of the committee report.
Awoniyi
urged the committee, which is made up of experts from the state
government and who will work with the resident engineers, to speed up
investigation.
He stated that the submission of their report will assist in preventing recurrence.
He also sympathised with the injured victims and the church.
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