The Kano State Government has explained the circumstances surrounding the death of three persons in Kano. Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, at a news briefing said a concrete beam that slipped caused the deaths and not a bridge collapse. Describing reports of “bridge collapse” as inaccurate, the commissioner said what happened was an accident, which happens in many construction sites.
Yusuf noted that the construction company was not at fault and that there was no evidence of substandard work that caused the slip of the concrete beam.
He said: “As the incident occurred, we had to deploy heavy duty vehicles to move the concrete beam but we couldn't, and this proved the quality of the work.
“We had to bring in heavy duty hacksaw machines to divide the concrete beam into three before it was moved”.
Yusuf, who added that the incident was the will of Allah, explained that “there were four similar concrete beams already mounted on the pillars of the pedestrian bridge and they had been there for days.
The last one was mounted and technical work was ongoing to tie it up when the taxi encroached and accidentally, the beam fell on it.”
He said that the construction company had done quite a number of quality construction works for Kano State government, including the same Sheikh Jaafar road, where the pedestrian bridge was under construction.
The commissioner ruled out technical audit of all the bridges that were constructed and already handed over to government, adding that people should not forget that the pedestrian bridge in question was still under construction.
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