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Scary scenes as part of high-rise building in Accra collapses

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  • Pan Africanist. 22 hours ago

    Who are the archichitects.

  • FFR 22 hours ago

    We're here

  • NanaAba 22 hours ago

    That is a converted waterlogged land.

  • Ghana paaaa 21 hours ago

    Will you like your building to be of that shape? I have been wondering for years about the shape of that building. Whether it is a Humpty Dumpty building. Chaii

  • Dzakpata 17 hours ago

    I am with you

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana leaders are FOOLS 11 hours ago

    Muahahajaaaa the building dey break..A nation called Ghana no wonder they don't want skyscraper, trains look at this..

  • Superwack 16 hours ago

    You are correct. That's a weird design that looks like it would be going down. No equilibrium !

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana leaders are FOOLS 11 hours ago

    Can't maintain anything. Can't do regular oil changes on vehicles, Can't maintain road, ridges, Can't maintain buildings Can't maintain stadium, Can't maintain railways smh

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana leaders are FOOLS 11 hours ago

    They are now using.gh as guinea pig to test new design buildings lol more people will die day and nite

  • TheMotherland 22 hours ago

    ...You can take your own.life.with.medicine. For.instance.15.tramadol.at.once... ...or.combine.medicine.and.akpeteshie.or.weedicide....

  • Yao 21 hours ago

    Ghanaweb.com, please ban this guy "ThrMotherland" who is promoting suicide here !!

  • Kuchoki 21 hours ago

    Kor sró kobor highrise building

  • T 21 hours ago

    Is that building not the property of Walter Taricone, owner of Trasasco Villa? To Ghanaweb journalists the area is called Spanner Junction.

  • Oklemekuku¹ 20 hours ago

    You can say that again

  • Pelicles 22 hours ago

    I am asking the same question. In this modern era, who made this stone age architecture?

  • Ghana Tuwo Zaafi 21 hours ago

    Kuffour Waaa Waaa era was that shit built. I remember quite well

  • And so what? 20 hours ago

    Are you implying that Kufour issued the building permit or approved the architectural design? If you don't have anything sensible to contribute here, rest your illiterate mind; okay?

  • And so this 12 hours ago

    If it was approved during the Kufuor administration, then the blame lies squarely with the corrupt Money Waa Waa.
    Idiot, that's how responsibility is assigned.

  • Baba 7 hours ago

    This comment is unfair to him.

  • KETA SCHOOL BOY 21 hours ago

    The greed of our politicians and a few in our society will kill us all. It is not the fault of the architect. The architect just draws a very beautiful structure on a paper.
    It is up to the engineers especially the structura ...
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  • Ruthan 21 hours ago

    Architects have an important role in the implementation of their plans, they don't just have to leave everything with civil engineers. I've seen 35 floors buildings elsewhere close to rivers creating no problems.

  • Medina Market Structure Loading 21 hours ago

    This figure 7 shape building? Tweaaa. Drunkards nkoaaa

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana leaders are FOOLS 11 hours ago

    Punk building wei.....why won't it collapse intact the while punk part would collapse and kill.people so the world can see how stuoidngg leaders are. Look at this soccer pitch to building you can't maintain anything useless.. ...
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  • Be informed 20 hours ago

    When it goes well it’s the architects and it goes bad it’s the engineers… smh

  • Mahama 24 Hour Economy is Real & West Togoland independence 21 hours ago

    We NDC we are full of bad luck. Too many tragedies

  • Kay 21 hours ago

    Their own Executive, Obuasi SECTEC has been caught red-handed for rapping his students. Demon

  • Pantalon 21 hours ago

    And so what? Why have you skipped who you want us to vote for? Idiot. Go straight to the point. Stupid propagandist

  • Henz 21 hours ago

    Massa who was in power when the Apiatu Dynamite blast turned a city into Gaza? Gyae gyimie nu

  • Paulo 19 hours ago

    This is an alarmist!!! It iwas the wawa boards whoch were flung down. No part of the building was affected.

  • Samurai 4 hours ago

    They could still have caused injuries to people around...

  • Ashanti Boy 18 hours ago

    These are some of the ugly buildings the NPP thieves stole our monies to invest in.

  • Ofui 15 hours ago

    That's not a totally architect's issue. It is the structural engineer who needs to answer some questions. Ghanaians are so ignorant they can't differentiate between the work of an architect and that of a structural engineer

  • Test against serious storms 11 hours ago

    People who design buildings where the top is heavier than the bottom are fools gambling with people's lives.

    What happened was God warning us in advance of any tragedy later on.
    The whole blueprint must be revised and the ...
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  • Oprege 8 hours ago

    Debris falling off not building collapsing is what is on the video, GhanaWeb agyimi too much

  • Great one 21 hours ago

    The entire damn thing has to be torn down, builders these days are obsessed with profits paying very little attention to safety and longevity. The real estate market is full of structures like this

  • NzemaK- OforiAttah still managing Pensioners Tier2?? 17 hours ago

    I personally don't like the two building designs especially the projected ends, but I can tell you that this is a complete False Alarm. I suspect somebody was clearing debris down from the top. Which is a bad practice anyway. ...
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  • Hustler 21 hours ago

    Back in the 1981-83 that place was where caught tilapia. I will not stay in the place for one hour. River from th UG , forest etc run through there to alajo

  • Kj 21 hours ago

    I pray God helps the investor because this is cash...

  • Ajara 21 hours ago

    Foolish cash for that matter. Can't he build a straight building of uniform sides? What is this? Se rectangle ooo, se oblong ooo, se rhombus ooo min ti asi

  • Kwame Angel 21 hours ago

    Who wants to be in these overpriced death traps - a building collapsing during construction? Stronger winds will always come in the future.

  • Kwame 21 hours ago

    Waste of money

  • Dee 21 hours ago

    Whoever took the video? How was he/she able to preempt that such a thing was about to happen?

  • Maxx 21 hours ago

    It started falling before he captured the subsequent one

  • Northern Boy 21 hours ago

    Government needs to do a lot to put Ghanaian engineers on their toes

  • Sam Fante warrior. 21 hours ago

    NPP is at work the nation destroyers and enemies of Kwame Nkrumah Ghana, they'll destroy everything and put fire everywhere when they're in opposition but this time the opposition they'll stay forever and only Ofori Atta can ...
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  • Ajara 21 hours ago

    I have never liked that building in particular. They should build another structure from the ground to carry the overlapped top to give it support

  • koonimo 21 hours ago

    Do we have structure engineers in Ghana? no wonder that's why everyone is studying law. Ghana has more Lawyers than engineers

  • Kweku 20 hours ago

    The engineers also study law.I recently met a lawyer for a client who was a medical doctor.No matter your background you can also become a lawyer.

  • Kako 21 hours ago

    Greed is what is killing Ernesto Taricone. He has bought all the big men in Ghana. The Ga youth must rise.

  • Cosmos 21 hours ago

    Please I need a job I have degree in accounting with computing and also am available for any manual job manual job just call me on 0244904138

  • He who knows 19 hours ago

    The qualifications you have alright, what about your character? More than 90% of Ghanaian workers steal from their employers, including maids who steal common kitchen vegetables like onions and tomatoes!

  • Menua 20 hours ago

    Imagine it's ready and tenants had moved in

  • Kiddy 20 hours ago

    Some of you rush to pass judgement.Don't we witness even the most advanced technologies sometimes failing.Let's with for the final report because what we all saw were just some loose concretes/mortar falling off from strong w ...
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  • Collapsed? 20 hours ago

    Parts fell off.

  • Ivor Mensah 20 hours ago

    The best way forward is to pull down the whole yaea structure.

  • OZYMANDIAS 20 hours ago

    Is the structure not sitting on the Odaw River drainage line? The river has been deliberately drained and filled with concrete slabs. However, the river’s underflow is still trying to find its way to connect to the main dra ...
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  • Kaya Man 19 hours ago

    So what kind of architecture is that; where you a wider frame on top of a smaller frame? That's nonsense

  • David 19 hours ago

    There are no building inspectors. In Ghana anyone can come and do as they wish. No restrictions and no uniformity. Some build high rises and next to that is a low building. Some paint theirs blue, others red, white, yellow, e ...
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  • Yao 18 hours ago

    They are selling these apartment units for thousands of $$$

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  • Erling Nkrumah 17 hours ago

    KUFUOR’S SINS NOW UNRAVELING
    I hope you know that all those buildings are on Tetteh Quarsshie Circle land pinched by Kufuor!

  • Superwack 17 hours ago

    That architecture is weird. It's not even nice or innovative. Who designed this mess ?

  • Komfo 15 hours ago

    Too much sand
    No cement
    No Iron rod

  • Who was the structural engineer 15 hours ago

    Was better calculation done for the moment that could be generated from many floors hanging like that? I could see they didn't use any beam column/ transfer slabs anywhere.

  • Ivor Mensah 14 hours ago

    Shoddy work. Cutting corners. Mixing 10 bags of cement with one tipper truck load of sand.

  • Odinga 12 hours ago

    Who is permitting them to build those ugly houses.

  • Great one 7 hours ago

    I hear the richest person in Ghana is Italian, waooo so much for the dreams of Nkrumah

  • Mr no nonsense 7 hours ago

    Again ,these fools won't di the checks before posting this nonsense is the wooden planks that were falling not the building per say,moboa they just get up and post thrash

  • Positive vibe 2 hours ago

    I will never ever buy these type of flats anywhere in the world. Even if you dash it to for free. Ghanaians are the most easiest people to decisive because they love anything that comes with hype.. I will live in my 4bedroom ...
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