Wonders shall never end! Is only God that can safe us in this country called Nigeria......

At least five construction workers narrowly escaped death, Thursday, when part of a building still under construction located beside Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja suddenly collapsed at about 3.20p.m.

The yet to be identified injured victims are currently receiving medical treatment at the Lagos State trauma Emergency Centre located at the Old Toll Gate where they were rushed to by staff of Lagos State Emergency Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS.

The building, which suffered partial collapsed due to structural defect, according to one of the engineers on site, was meant to house Shoprite Mall, Kentuckey Fried Chicken, KFC, and Silverbird Cinemas, various offices and shops scheduled to be completed in November 2011.

The structure, is being constructed by an Italian company, CAPPA and DALBERTO Plc on about three acres of land opposite Elephant House.
LASAMBUS to the rescue
According LASAMBUS General Manager, Mr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, five people were rescued from the debris.

He said: “My own job is to respond to this kind of calamity quickly to ensure that we rescue our people. We have the state Fire Service, the State Ambulance Services and the Civil Defence Corps on ground for the rescue operation.”

According to him, the construction company has made the roll call of the workers at the site and observed that no one is trapped except the five people that have been rescued.

He said: “The state Ministry of Physical Planning will have to visit the site to investigate the cause of the collapse while the debris is being evacuated. For now, we have sealed off part of the area where the crack occurred.”

Project Manager for CAPPA and DALBERTO, who simply identified himself as Christian, said that the company would investigate to know the cause of the collapse.

He said: “Please understand us. We cannot tell you what has caused the collapse. We will look into it and see.”

Victim’s story
Meanwhile, one of the construction workers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the pressure on the construction company to deliver the project as scheduled had compelled the company to be working both day and night, adding that the iron rod networking of the part that collapsed was not properly done.

He said: “Some of us that did not sustain injury in the collapse will go and do thanksgiving in the church. We saw it coming. The rush to complete this project is too much.

“We had just cast the decking of the first floor in that part of the complex. The workers that poured the concrete were still very much around the ground floor when the cantilevers gave way and the whole decking fell in.”

Francis Obinna, Head of Disaster Management unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, who led a team of rescuers to the site, told newsmen that he mobilised to the scene when they heard a heavy sound from the site.

“Five persons are injured and have been rushed to the hospital. They were workers casting the decking when the building collapsed. Emergency response teams were here and attended to the situation promptly.....

You might not believe this, but it’s true. In a desperate bid to become rich, a young man in Calabar, popularly known as Udo Mbakara, has sliced off the heads of two young girls who are his nieces.

Mbakara, 28, told police detectives in theCross River State capital that he beheaded his two young nieces so that he could sell the heads. Each of the head, he said, was to be sold for one million naira.

The suspect lives with his mother, his younger brother and two nieces at 65, Edim Otop in Calabar. His elder sister and mother of his nieces is said to live in Lagos. The sister only comes from time to time to visit.

Narrating the incident at the police station where he is being detained pending his arraignment, Mbakara said: “On that fateful Saturday morning at about 9 am, Princess, aged nine and Rachel, aged six, were all at home when I offered to cook rice for them. But unknown to the children, I had drugged the food and did not allow my own younger brother to eat the food.

“After consuming the food, they fell asleep. Then I carried them to the inner room where I started hacking off their heads. I was offered the sum of one million naira for the head of a virgin. I was to be paid two million naira for the two heads.”
Investigations by Daily Sun revealed that Mbakara, who has since refused to disclose the proposed buyer of the sliced heads, might not be a first offender. Many people believe he has for long been in the business of selling human heads to ritualists within the Calabar metropolis.

“It is even rumoured that he’s behind the sudden disappearances of most of the missing children in the town, and that he has been fronting for those in the business. It was also gathered that his elder brother is serving a jail term in the Afokang Prison for rape,” a resident told Daily Sun. Police sources said that in the last three months, the command has received reports of missing children and has even gone on air to announce the particulars of some of them.

A family source confided in this newspaper that it was Udo Mbakara’s younger brother that raised the alarm on what the suspect was doing inside the room. According the source, who pleaded anonymity “due to family considerations,” the younger Udo claimed that he heard the children screaming inside. The source continued: “So he went and peeped and saw his elder brother mopping blood on the floor.

His entire body was also very bloody. At the gory sight, he rushed out and informed neighbours that there was something going on in the house and the girls were screaming. At that moment, some neighbours went in to see what was going on. They then alerted men of the Airport Police Station who responded promptly and arrested Udo Mbakara.”
The slaughtered kids were pupils of Holy Family Nursery and Primary School, 34, Otu Ansa Street in Calabar.

At the children’s school, the headmistress, Mrs. Rosa Samuel Edo, described them as very brilliant, saying it was a pity that the school has lost them. According to her, it was as if the unlucky children had known that something would go wrong, noting that they both developed fever on Thursday and Friday. Princess’ class teacher, who would not disclose his name, was crying profusely when Daily Sun sought to speak with him. He said he was close to the girl who he described as “very brilliant.”

Mbakara, who is presently being interrogated at the homicide department of the state police Command, Diamond Hill in Calabar, would soon be charged to court.

  May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

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