Workers Sustain Injuries After A 22-Storey Building Under Construction Collapses At Airport
- Think News Online
- Feb 11, 2021
- 1 min read
Some workers have sustained various degrees of injuries after a 22-storey building under construction at the Airport Residential Area adjacent to the Association International School collapsed.
According to sources, the injured have been sent to the Nyaho Clinic for treatment.
ThinkNews Online has gathered that 22-storey building when completed will have shopping malls and other facilities.
It will be recalled in 2019, after series of complaints by the school and some residents, the Roads Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, visited the site and led his team to demolish a concrete barricade that had been erected by the developers, believed to be Turkish.
The construction of the building had affected sections of the school’s foundation creating cracks and causing environmental pollution to the residents of the area.
Although the Roads Minister called for the arrest of the contractor working on the project, construction seems to have continued on the project.
The school also secured an interim injunction against the Turkish contractor, but that was dismissed by an Accra High Court.
Reacting to the partial collapse of the structure, the Headmistress of Association International School, Audrey Doryumu, commiserated with the victims. However, she added that the incident is proof that the structure was not statically determinate.
“This is exactly what I have been talking about, the danger that this poses to our children, and the school and those around here. Using incompetent building practices putting up such a building and this is what has happened,” she said.
Owing to that, she called for construction on the project to be stopped as the building lacks structural integrity.
Story by: News Desk Report
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