An abandoned uncompleted three-storey building along Nweke Awkuzu Street, behind Timber, Trans-Ekulu axis of Enugu, on Friday, collapsed, destroying property worth millions of niara.
No life was lost.
The residence of the Vice Chairman of Aninri Local Government Area, Enugu State, Ndukwe Okechukwu Bamidele, behind the collapsed building was badly destroyed.
A resident of the area said that the affected building was abandoned following the death of the owner about two years ago.
The house had no legal occupants but was inhabited illegally by some people who had left the place less than one week before the incident.
The cause of the incident was not known, but residents of the area attributed it to a faulty foundation.
The collapsed structure affected two nearby structures.
Ndukwe said that he would have lost three of his children to the ugly incident if not that God intervened and saved them.
“My children were in the parlour doing a mathematics assignment I gave them. They went to their mother who’s in one of the rooms to get help in the assignment and this thing happened.
“As you can see, my parlour and the adjourning rooms were completely shattered by the collapsed building which entered my own compound.
“This is a huge loss to me but I’m grateful to God that my children and wife came out without a scratch,” Ndukwe said.
He said that a fish pond belonging to his wife, with over 500 ready-to-sell fishes, was completely submerged by the collapsed building.
The fence of an adjourning compound was also affected by the collapsed structure.
