Zainab Ali
A badly injured survivor has escaped death narrowly after he was rescued on Monday morning alongside two dead bodies.
30-year-old Kenneth Mutala is one of the victims of a building site in Kiwempe village in Makindye Division that collapsed killing 9 people and injuring many.
The builders were being housed in accordance with the presidential directive to stay employees working in factories, markets, and construction sites until the lockdown is lifted to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Police Fire and Rescue team in their effort to retrieve bodies stuck under the rubble are using an excavator.
Mutala has been rushed to Mulago National Referral hospital in a fire tender truck as there was no ambulance readily available.
Among the dead excavated include Police a welder only identified as John from Kibuye and another yet to be identified.
Out of 20 builders, 13, have been retrieved with now 9 dead and 3 survivors.
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Physical Planning Department in March this year issued a notice to the developer identified as Abraham Kalanzi for construction works to be halted on the building pending review.
However, he stubbornly ignored the warning and went with rapid stealthy construction leading to this ill fate.
Douglas Nsubuga, the Physical Planner at Makindye Division says that the developer had not acquired approved drawings and also lacked supervision from professional engineers.
Minister for Kampala Betty Kamya who visited the site this morning says police have started investigations into the exact cause of the fall to ascertain if they followed the due procedure before commencing construction.
