How Governor Udom Emmanuel Of Akwa Ibom Narrowly Escaped Death In The Uyo Church Building Collapse: Udom, Saraki Calls For The Arrest And Probe Of The Contractors And Engineers Involved

Essien Nduese, a Personal Assistant to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State on Media recently revealed how the governor narrowly escaped from the Uyo church collapse.

According to Governor's aide, an iron bar fell and shattered the seat the governor was sitting on but he was unharmed. He also revealed that the  Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Udoh, and the Chief Press Secretary to the governor Mr. Ekerette Udoh, are in the hospital as a result of the disaster.

In his words: “Ekerette has a dislocation in his left leg; he also has internal pains. He is better now though he  is still in the hospital.

 “The governor did not run; he simply saw the falling iron coming, it stopped half way, then he walked out.”

In a recent development the governor who had declared a two-day mourning period in memory of the departed had also called on Akwa Ibom people to continue to make prayers for the families of the dead and refrain from negative comments that could further deepen the pains of the bereaved families.

Albeit, the governor had on Sunday ordered the immediate arrest of the contractors and engineers that constructed the church building.

“They should be made to answer certain questions so that the state would be able to get to the root cause of the matter,” Udom said.

In the same light, Nigeria's Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, on Sunday, commiserated with the people of Akwa Ibom over the incident. While calling for investigation into the cause of the collapse, which led to the death of dozens of people and left many others gravely injured.

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