OKPOKO BUILDING COLLAPSE: ANAMBRA COMMISSIONER CONDEMNS ILLEGAL STRUCTURE, ORDERS DEMOLITION. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Okpoko Building Collapse: Ojukwu Condemns Illegal Structure, Orders Demolition ‎ ‎By Chukwuka Ugokwe ‎ ‎The Anambra State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Bar. Chijioke Ojukwu, has on Oct 8, described the collapse of a three-storey building under construction in Okpoko, Ogbaru Local Government Area, as unfortunate. ‎ ‎The incident, which occurred in the Anata Anaba area of the town, claimed the lives of a middle-aged woman and her 14-year-old daughter, amid allegations that warnings about the safety of the building had been ignored. ‎ ‎The victims, identified as Happiness Ugoagu and her daughter, Chikaima, were reportedly asleep in their bedroom when the building collapsed onto their residence. ‎ ‎Ojukwu, who visited the scene alongside officials of the ministry, alleged that substandard materials had been used in the construction. He also disclosed that a stop-work notice had previously been served on the building. ‎ ‎Describing the structure as illegal, ...

APC SPOKESMAN: I DON’T KNOW WHEN TINUBU’S POLICIES WILL START YIELDING RESULTS. (PHOTO).


 APC spokesman: I don’t know when Tinubu’s policies will start yielding results


Contrary to the submissions by various bigwigs of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policies have started yielding results, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Barrister Felix Morka, has said he does not know when the policies of the Tinubu administration would start yielding results.


Morka stated this on Thursday while fielding questions from newsmen at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja.


Nigerians have been groaning over high level of unemployment, poverty, hunger, insecurity, high cost of living and other challenges.


But the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Tajudeen Abbas; National Chairman of the APC, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; Imo State governor and Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF), Hope Uzodinma, among others had during a national summit of the party last week said Tinubu’s policies were already yielding positive results.


But responding to a question on when Nigerians will start benefiting from the policies of government, Morka said, “The child is crawling. Now, I don’t know what age. I can’t say.”


Speaking further, Morka said, “I think it varies from one child to the other. Some kids are faster than the others. So they crawl quicker than some. But irrespective of the time they crawl, they crawl. Children crawl and children are meant to crawl before they walk.


“So, I don’t think it’s an assessment of whether a child who is crawling is doing well. A child who is crawling is doing exactly what a child is expected to do, to crawl before they walk. So if a child is crawling, actually, if that’s your child, I think you should encourage the child to crawl.


“Because it’s by crawling that is strengthening their legs and other parts of the body to withstand the rigor of walking. You don’t need to encourage them to crawl. But I’m not sure why you raised that as an analogy to the conversation we are having.”


Speaking on fuel subsidy, the APC spokesman said, “All the presidents who came before this president preferred to simply postpone the doomsday. Because we didn’t just wake up in the last two years to realise that fuel subsidy was a destructive device in our country. We didn’t.”


Morka, who said Tinubu removed subsidy on fuel in the overall interest of the nation, also dismissed the claims that the APC has commenced campaign for the President’s re-election, saying endorsement of the President is not a campaign.


Responding to a question on insecurity, Morka described it is a global phenomenon, quipping, “insecurity is a challenge that we face as a country, especially over the last 20 years.”

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