One of the advisors responsible for the construction of a building at Cantoments in Accra which collapsed on Saturday has dismissed reports that the materials his outfit used for the construction of the building were inferior.
A carpenter who was trapped under the building was killed when the building collapsed while twelve other persons sustained various degrees of injuries.
[contextly_sidebar id=”mb1PtENztsxpTJUfe9oHpJ6ZmmJ9LC17″]The collapsed building, according to the Police, was a restaurant under construction.
Speaking to Citi News, the advisor who gave his name as Yaw Bashiru said the incident was purely an accident and ruled out any act of negligence.
“What happened is an accident, if you look at the construction any layman will see that the quality of the material there is very strong. Be it the concrete, be it the iron whatever it is. We keep insisting it was an accident because only an accident can make such a thing to happen and not the quality of the material.”
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, Bashiru said contractors will take measures to resolve the challenge after the Police have completed investigations into the incident.
“We have to wait for the report to finish and investigations to be completed before we can take any further step,”he said.
He further insisted that the building under construction had been insured.
Commenting on the Melcom building collapse, Bashiru said the incident happened because “there was a defect in the cement that was used.”
Meanwhile the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Police Command ASP Effia Tenge has said twelve persons were immediately sent to the Police Hospital and the 37 military hospital respectively for treatment after the incident “but six of them have been treated and discharged.”
There have been many such incidents across the country in the last few years, claiming several lives.
In March a storey building collapsed at Nii Boye Town in Accra killing one person while the other escaped.
In July 2014, 0ver 40 people escaped unhurt after a storey building partially collapsed at Bubiashie in Accra.
By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana