{"id":46113,"date":"2026-07-15T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=46113"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:34:19","slug":"opinion-jubas-haphazard-construction-a-time-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/opinion-jubas-haphazard-construction-a-time-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Juba\u2019s haphazard construction, a time bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Writer: Eng. Maker Mangol Acien Yuol<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The construction industry in Juba riskily accommodates experienced labourers but not qualified engineers, including those from East African countries.<\/p>\n<p>A critical investigation of most of the concrete structures in Juba shows they are built without soil investigations, survey work, blueprints, or designed artwork. Others do not even have a Bill of Quantities (BOQ), specifications &amp; detailing, building codes, or checklists, let alone relevant construction bidding documents.<\/p>\n<p>These are not only indicators of poor workmanship at the construction site but also place occupants of such buildings at high risk.<\/p>\n<p>We must keep in mind that it is not only bullets that kill a large number of people; poor building infrastructure does similar havoc.<\/p>\n<p>I call upon the government to check the construction industry and allow only qualified engineers to run this sector for the safety of lives and property against damages due to technical inefficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Only certified engineers should be allowed to provide building codes and guidelines of construction to be used in this industry.<\/p>\n<p>An urban engineer, who is a government technical officer, must issue a certificate of occupancy after supervising all the requirements before placing a building into use.<\/p>\n<p>Unless these criteria are followed, with mushrooming hazardous construction works, Juba residents are sleeping on a time bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer: Eng. Maker Mangol Acien Yuol The construction industry in Juba riskily accommodates experienced labourers but not qualified engineers, including those from East African countries. A critical investigation of most of the concrete structures in Juba shows they are built without soil investigations, survey work, blueprints, or designed artwork. Others<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/opinion-jubas-haphazard-construction-a-time-bomb\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,90,80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columnists","category-commentary","category-national","category-oped"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/By-Eng.-Maker-Mangol.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46118,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46113\/revisions\/46118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}