Crane accident can be fatal. Yesterday, at the Kirikiri Lighter Terminal (KLT) phase 1 terminal, a Customs Agent was killed by a crane.
By Uzor Odigbo
A reliable source from the KLT Command informed TheNiche that one Ikechukwu Kennedy from Imo State, who is the first son of his parents, was killed by a moving crane during the process of repositioning his container for examination.
The source further said that the late Ikechukwu Kennedy was directing the movement of the crane to position his container to be dropped for examination by the Customs when the incident happened.
When a call was made to confirm the incident, Mr Isaac who is the Terminal Manager of the Joechil terminal, phase 1 said he was somewhere else and very busy.
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It was also alleged that the equipment that led to the death of the Customs Broker might have been faulty and malfunctioning.
The late Ikechukwu Kennedy is said to be a strong member of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) KLT chapter and members have already mobilised taking his remains to the Naval mortuary at Boundary, Ajegunle.
Crane accidents have always been fatal. Last August, eight people, including two Chinese, were killed and two others injured after a crane collapsed at a construction site in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, police said.
The crane came crashing down while a team of 10 workers was attempting to dismantle it, eyewitnesses said.
“We have lost eight people,” said Andrew Mbogo, police chief of Kilimani neighbourhood, where the accident occurred.
“They include two Chinese and six Kenyans,” he told reporters.
The project to build a 14-storey student hostel was being supervised by a Chinese construction firm called ZJCC. None of its representatives was willing to comment on the accident, according to the AFP which reported the accident.
The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear but eyewitnesses said they heard people screaming as the crane slammed into the ground.
“We were having lunch when we heard things falling and thought part of the building was coming down,” construction worker Michael Odhiambo told AFP.
“When we got there, we found a crane had snapped and tumbled down,” he added.
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