The ill-fated incident that occurred on Tuesday the 30th of August 2022 around 3pm left many in tears as a three storey building still under construction at the popular GSM Market along Beirut Road of the Kano State Metropolis collapsed leaving many marketers trapped in the rubble.
With the proactive nature and leadership strides of the Director-General/CEO of the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute Engr. Prof. Samson Duna without waste of time, Prof. Duna on Saturday the 3rd September, 2022 was in Kano to sympathize with the good people of the state where he then set up and inaugurated a team of professionals drawn from various professional bodies of Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE), Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), NBRRI staff and other relevant agencies to investigate and come up with a technical document on the cause of the collapse.
The team through its chairman Engr. Dr. Abubakar Njir gave their assurance of professionalism and expertise in the building sector to work in accordance with the building code of ethics and present the document within the stipulated period.