NDC to issue cease order for collapsed house at Ogle

Mar 10, 2018 News

Less than three days after an unfinished building buckled and collapsed Monday morning, injuring a 23-year-old worker, the owner of the property who was identified as ‘Davo’ moved in to clear out the debris and recommence works at the site.
This was even as the Neighbourhood Democratic Council visited the site and indicated to the man that there would be an investigation and assessment to determine what may have caused the house to collapse.
The move by the businessman to continue works at the facility without the necessary permission for the local authorities has caused the local authority to pass a motion during a meeting on Thursday to issue the businessman with a cease order.
Speaking with the Kaieteur News during a telephone interview on Friday, Genevieve Allen, Regional Chairperson, said that the decision to issue the cease order was made after this publication brought to the attention of the authorities that workers re-entered the site and already moved most of the debris.
On Thursday morning at the location, the men locked themselves in the property and began preliminary works to convert the structure, which was intended to be a two storeyed house, to a single flat building.
Mrs. Allen said that the Environmental Officer and others from the NDC would need to visit the location and launch an investigation to determine what might have caused the structure to collapse. She indicated that following the tragedy on Monday, the site was also visited.
Agaffi Obermuller, the young man who was pinned under the rubble, hospitalized and then discharged, said that he can hardly recall what took place on the morning the structure came crashing down.
He spoke of performing works on one section of the structure when the crumbling began from another end.
“I was underneath the scaffold loosing out the form board them and all I could remember is that I hear a little break, like if you hold a stick and break it and that is it; everything keep coming down,” he recalled.
He said that after he was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, he was required to undergo several tests following which doctors recommended that he remain at the facility for observation for a period of six hours before he was discharged.
According to Obermuller while the owner of the property wanted him to be sent to a private hospital, his family decided to allow the treatment and observation at the GPHC to work for them until he was discharged.
At the GPHC, he was given an ultra sound and had several X-Rays done for various parts of this body.
At his home on Thursday morning, he was preparing to seek further medical attention at the Balwant Singh Hospital where he was required to have CT Scans done for his head and back as he complained of still feeling pain in those areas. His right eye was bloodshot at the time.
The young man confirmed that the property he was working on is owned by the owner of the Davo’s Lumber Yard located at Ogle on the Railway Embankment.
On Monday when reporters called ‘Davo’, whom workers identified as the owner, he denied knowing anything of a collapsed structure and when pressed he disconnected the call.
Residents complained that the building sprung up very fast and they had always had concerns with its structural integrity.
The businessman has several other properties in and around the Ogle/Industry communities and the structural integrity of those buildings is also being questioned.

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