The investigative panel set up by the Federal Government on the collapsed two-storey school building in Jos, Plateau State, has released a preliminary report on the sad incident.
Recall that The two-storey building housing Saint Academy, located at the Busa Buji community in the Jos North Local Government Area of the state, collapsed on Friday, claimed 22 persons and left about 154 trapped persons who were evacuated to various hospitals.
Addressing journalists in Jos, on Tuesday, the Director General of the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute, Samson Duna, said the report of the panel revealed that the physical observation of the building looked distressed while weak materials were used for the building.
Duna said the report also depicted that the quality of the concrete used to construct the two-storey building was in doubt, as there was no boundary between the concrete and the steel reinforcement.
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