Tina Amanda
South-South Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, EJIKE UDEINYA has revealed that a total of thirty-one persons have been rescued and twelve persons confirmed dead from the collapsed building at Woji road, GRA, Port Harcourt.
The Zonal Coordinator who disclosed this in a media briefing in Port Harcourt, described the situation as a peculiar one, stressing that NEMA is witnessing such a rescue operation for the first time.
According to him, NEMA as a coordinating and assisting agency which is not a first response team is putting its best to ensure that people are brought out alive or dead.
Udeinya, however, used the opportunity to dismiss reports that NEMA has neither done well or is very slow in the operation, stressing that NEMA was only a coordinating agency and not the main rescue agency in the incident.
He stressed further that the peculiarity of the collapsed building has made it difficult for the disaster management team to conclude operations despite the level of equipment deployed to the site.
He also affirmed that the rescue operations at the site of the collapsed building which started eleven days ago are still on in other to rescue more persons either dead or alive.
