Following the last weekend’s collapse of the multi-million
naira Imo Film Academy, along Egbu Road Owerri, the state commissioner for
Information, Engr. Chidi Ibe has explained that the building collapsed by
accident and not as a result substandard material.The building constructed and
commissioned by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State penultimate weekend
(November 14, 2014) at the premises of the Imo State College of Advanced
Professional Studies, ICAPS, collapsed barely one week after it was
commissioned by the governor, thereby fueling speculations that the building
was one of the governor’s many substandard projects in the state.
But, speaking
during his maiden press briefing, the commissioner said the building collapsed
because a trailer carrying heavy equipment fell on the building, thereby
pulling it down.According to him, “there was nothing like collapsed building.
It was a trailer carrying a heavy generator and while trying to drop the
equipment behind the Film Academy, one of the trailer’s tyres pulled and
the trailer fell on the building.
The impact of the trailer’s fall led to the
collapse of the building”.Ibe expressed surprise that many journalists went
about publishing the story that it collapsed as a result of its purported
substandard nature without verifying from any member of the government.He used
the opportunity to call on journalists to endeavour to be more objective and
sincere especially now that the nation was seriously preparing for general
elections.On Governor Okorocha’s 2015 ambition, the commissioner said the
governor was not so desperate to return back as governor of Imo State but said
his only ambition was to become the president of the country.According to him,
despite the fact that the governor had set his eyes on the presidency, more
than 90 percent of the people of the state want him to complete his second term
and do more for the people of the state.
Thank God no live was lost.
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