According to PM News,two persons,a 16 year old girl and 45 year old local football coach are said to have died in the Nkpolu-Orowuoroku area in Mile 3 in Port Harcourt when a telecommunication mast and billboard fell on them during an hour long rain accompanied with thunderstorms.The female victim whose immediate identity remains unknown was said to have been under a giant umbrella assisting her mother to sell her wares when the mast suddenly collapse on a giant billboard and fell on the girl who died immediately.According tto a witness,''We were about to start football practice when rain started falling with heavy wind.Suddenly,the telecommunication mast fell on a billboard which fell on her.A pole also fell on the football coach''.The mother of the girl who was in a state of shock said ''We are selling at Nkolu here.My daughter was helping me to sell when suddenly the rain started falling with heavy breeze which now fell the mast and the billboard that collapsed on my daughter''.The River State government through the Rivers State Signage and Outdoor Advertising Agency has warned that it will prosecute any outdoor advertising billboards in the state.The Acting Chairman of the Outdoor Advertising Agency,Chukwudi Dimkpa,said this during the inspection of the outdoor advert billboard and the telecoms mast that collapsed.Dimkpa attributed the collapse to lack of maintenance of the billboard and the use of substandard materials for their billboards.He said the rain of yesterday exposed the substandard nature of the billboards erected by the outboard advertising agencies in the state.He said that the agency will start the full implementation of the outdoor advertising law in the state to checkmate excesses of advertising agencies.
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