This came as the state governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, announced that the government would set up a high-powered panel of inquiry to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the disaster and bring to book persons found to have compromised professional standards in the construction of the building.
Meanwhile, state governors and others have continued to send their condolences to Governor Emmanuel, the people of the state and victims’ families. Among governors that sent condolences, weekend, were Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.
Speaking to Vanguard at Anua Hospital, Anua Offot, in Uyo Local Government Area, Mrs. Eno Etim, 44, from Mbo LGA of the state, thanked God for saving her life. Narrating her ordeal she said:
”I was inside the church and everything was going on normally. A lady was called to lead the praise and worship when the governor entered. After the governor came in and the church welcomed him, the next thing was praise and worship. As that was going on, we heard the church roof breaking and started falling on people. Before we knew what was happening, the building fell on us. I do not know how I got to the hospital.
“That was all I remembered. I do not know how I got to this hospital. It was after a while that I regained consciousness. I still feel pain in my back and all over my body. But I am grateful to God because I am not better than those that lost their lives in the place.”
She said added that she was a member of United Intercessors Network and that Pastor Akan Weeks was one of their leaders.
Corroborating her, her niece, Nkoyo Ekong, said she was in the house when Etim called her that she should meet her in the hospital because she was involved in the church accident.
Also Emem Akpanitiat, 22, who also managed to utter few words, because of excruciating on her head, legs and arms, because of injuries, equally said she did not know she got to the hospital. She added that she had been informed a doctor said she would be transferred to University of Uyo Teaching Hospital.
May the grant the families of those victims fortitude to bear their losses.
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