All outdoor advertising boards in Abia State have been marked to undergo integrity after a deadly billboard accident that claimed one person and injured 7 others happened on Wednesday in Aba, the commercial capital of Abia.
This was disclosed by the Managing Director, Abia State Signage and Advertising Agency, Mrs Victoria Onwubiko, who made this known on Thursday in Aba at the Salad Market entrance, the site of the accident.
According to her, ABSAA would ensure such accidents did not reoccur, noting that henceforth, the agency would inspect every advertising site in the state.
“We are going to ask the owners of sites like this to give us the technical drawings with which they built their sites. If we don’t see them, the bill board will come down for them to redo it to ensure safety,” she said.
The ABSAA MD pointed out that every site, whether high or low, which is not sound, will go down.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a big billboard fell on some passengers in five tricycles in Aba on Wednesday, following a boisterous wind, killing one person, and injuring seven others.
Onwubiko said the governor had given the necessary approval for procedures regarding the victims’ treatment without hindrances.
Chinedu Nwibo, an eye-witness and a vulcaniser for tricycle operators, said there were seven persons at the entrance of the Salad Market on that Wednesday when the accident occurred.
“We were inside a little makeshift shop I had set up for my work when the rain started on Wednesday. The wind was very boisterous, and some of the tricycle operators went into their tricycles to stay for the rain to stop. No sooner had they ran into their tricycles than a big iron pipe used to hoist a billboard fell on them. One Destiny Uguru, 27, from Izzi in Ebonyi state, died from the accident while seven persons sustained injuries,” he said.
Nwibo called on the government to come to the aid of the victims, especially by replacing their tricycles.
“The man that lost his life has an expectant wife and two children,” he said.
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