Ekiti CJ hospitalized as office collapses

Ekiti CJ hospitalized as office collapses

The tragedy was averted in Ekiti State on Wednesday evening when the office of the state’s Chief Justice, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye, collapsed.

Justice Adeyeye escaped death but was seriously injured and was rushed to a tertiary hospital in the state capital for treatment.

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According to reports, the incident occurred near the end of the workday as the Chief Justice was preparing to close his chamber for the day.

Office workers took a lot of effort to pull the judge out of the rubble.

A 24-second video obtained by our correspondent revealed that all of the steel equipment used for the suspended ceiling and a section of the wall had completely collapsed in the office.

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The cause of the incident has not yet been revealed, but sources speculate that structural flaws in the building on the State High Court grounds may have caused it.

Despite attempts to obtain information, the Registrar of the Judiciary and the Chief Justice’s spokesman failed to respond to journalist inquiries about the incident.