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Management of the Dennis Memorial Grammer School (DMGS) Onitsha, Anambra State has described as fallacious reports alleging expiration of license of the Consultant handling the centenary building.
Director of Operations, DMGS Situation, Chijioke Ojji, in a statement said the Consultant Structural Engineer, Engr Dr Chris Oyeka is a renowned registered engineer in good professional standing with Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
Ojji noted that the alleged reports did not explain the cause of the collapse, stressing that the panel’s interest remained to know the real cause of the failure.
He urged the public to wait patiently for the outcome of the investigations before making its judgement and to be wary of the headline-grabbing messages.
The statement reads, “Our attention has been drawn to false publications making the rounds with the headline; “Cause of DMGS building collapse revealed, as Consultant’s licence reportedly expired 25 years ago.”
“This is patently false as the Consultant Structural Engineer, Engr Dr Chris Oyeka, is a renowned registered engineer in good professional standing with COREN. This fact was confirmed at the hearing.
“It is clearly obvious that the wide and inaccurate conjectures, baseless insinuations, and premature conclusions no matter the attribution do not explain the cause of the collapse.
“We are interested to know the real cause of this failure. We therefore continue to
hope that resources will be made available to the various inquiries and investigations to seek the difficult technical answers or explanations for the collapse of the
Centenary building.
“We are aware that the public and media interest in this unfortunate incident is
exceedingly high and unfortunately has been heightened by the nature of the Panel which has conflated the collapse of the DMGS Centenary building with the Ochanja market catastrophe – a project of the Anambra State Government which collapsed about 4 months ago.”
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