Siminalayi Fubara, Governor of Rivers State, has sealed off the site of the five-storey building that collapsed on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, killing one person and injuring several others.
Onwuka Nzeshi, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, said in a release on Thursday that Fubara also ordered a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collapse.
The governor, who visited the site on Thursday to assess the situation, said the site would remain “completely sealed off” until the government got to the “root cause” of the incident.
He described the incident as unfortunate but observed that preliminary investigations had shown that the developer had earlier refused to submit his site for inspection by the state authorities and comply with the necessary building regulations.
Fubara, who inspected the site alongside Amairigha Edward Hart, Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, and Dabite Sokari George, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Special Duties, explained that he could not visit the site the previous day because he was awaiting a formal briefing from the relevant government agency on the situation. Related News N70,000 minimum wage overtaken by economic realities - Gbajabiamila ICPC arraigns el-Rufai over alleged N8.7bn Kaduna CCTV contract irregularities Apple raises iPad, MacBook prices as AI memory crunch hits consumer tech
