KENYAN BUILDING COLLAPSE NEAR NAIROBI KILLS SIX PEOPLE. (PHOTO).

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 Kenyan building collapse near Nairobi kills six people The collapse of an unfinished eight-storey building in Kenya has killed six people. The structure fell on Friday morning in Syokimau on the outskirts of Nairobi. Construction workers were reportedly at the site when the building’s uppermost concrete slab gave way, bringing down part of the structure, according to a preliminary report from Nairobi City County’s emergency team. The report did not establish why the slab failed. The Kenya Red Cross initially reported that three people had been rescued and one person was reported missing. TV reports later said that five people had been pulled alive from the rubble and taken to hospital. The emergency report said the number of workers present when the building fell had not been confirmed, leaving open the possibility that others were trapped. Firefighters and specialist rescue teams were continuing to search for survivors.

OHANAEZE JAN 10 ELECTION: ADF WARNS AGAINST IMPOSITION OF EX-IGP OKIRO AS PRESIDENT GENERAL. (PHOTO).


 Ohanaeze Jan 10 election: ADF warns against imposition of ex-IGP Okiro as President General


Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), a frontline Igbo think tank, has warned against the imposition of former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mike Okiro, as the President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo.


The warning was coming ahead of the forthcoming national elections of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation.


National President of ADF and former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, in a statement, said that the ADF is not against the emergence of any candidate as the President-General of the organisation, but it must be through a clean and accepted process.


He said: “Due process must be followed to ensure that Ndigbo worldwide bought into the emerging leadership, just as it opposed the perspective that Chief Okiro who joined the police as a Rivers State man when his brother was Eze in Imo State, may be very serious with Igbo affairs.


“ADF admonishes Rivers State Ohanaeze Ndigbo to ensure that due process is followed by complying with the Ohanaeze Constitution, which stipulate that they shortlist three candidates to be voted for, and publish same before the election.


“Ohanaeze Rivers State should ensure that they put their house in order to claim what is rightfully theirs. We challenge all good spirited Ndigbo in Rivers State such as Ndi Eze, politicians and technocrats, among others, to stand up to be counted in this period that the position of President-General is deemed to be theirs. This, they must do by ensuring that they present and support candidate who is not ashamed of Igboness, and are administratively exposed to take Ohanaeze to international heights.


“We, however, warn that if Igbo people in Rivers State by any act of commission or omission, allow apparent chameleonic characters who are from Rivers State in the day, and from other states in the night, to be manipulatively imposed on them, they should not blame other Igbo people.”


Regarding the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, ADF described it as condemnable and unacceptable, pointing out that a situation where people who committed heinous crimes were set free while a freedom fighter was kept inside the dungeon in perpetuity was bad.


It viewed as discriminatory, the recent order by the House of Representatives for the release of the detained leader of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore whereas the IPOB leader remains in detention for years.


ADF said the situation where there are different rules for different ethnic groups in the country is unacceptable, and also condemned the arrest, arraignment and detention of human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, warning that the situation that the security agencies and judicial officers make themselves available to be used by powerful persons to settle scores with their enemies, is inimical to the democracy.

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