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3-storey building collapses in Ibadan

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Published: October 4, 2022
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A 3-storey building which was said to be housing a pentecostal church, supermarkets, pharmaceutical store as well as other business ventures at Adabor junction, Aishi Bodija in Ibadan north local government area collapses on Sunday night, though reports had it that no life was lost, but other goods worth millions perished due to the collapse of the building.

A related incident happened in the same local government two months earlier when a five floor hotel in Awosike avenue, which was under construction collapsed.

The incident has caused negative emotions of danger in the minds of the residents and business owners in the town, due to high amount of losses posed by continuous building collapse in the area.

Speaking with an eyewitness he explained that the occupants of the collapsed building were fortunately not around when the incident occurred except a security personnel.

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Information gathered from one of the supermarket owners identified as Sade Aderibigbe said

“We suddenly heard a loud shaking noise in the midnight, we were scared because we think it was armed robbers.”

“We rushed out to the scene, on getting there, we see that the building has sunk and collapsed.”

Also, Abulesowo Tunde who spoke with newsmen in regards to the incident noted that the land was a former cemetery before it was sold and converted to a business centre.

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“According to him, when the land was sold, all the corpses in the cemetery were evacuated before the construction of the building started which was during the administration of former chief Adebayo Also Akale.

The building has been given a sign of cracking before it later came down, resulting in the destruction of goods and wares valued at millions of naira.

“We are making efforts to salvage the goods and make sure hoodlums don’t have access to it so that they won’t cart it away, we have called the Police and NEMA, no life was lost and nobody was injured.”

The officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), Oyo State Fire Service Agency, the Police and men of the Western Security Network Agency code-named Amotekun have beefed up security around the place.

Also, efforts are been intensified to clear the rubbles in order to evacuate trapped commodities.

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