By THREE HAUSAS REMOVED FROM COLLAPSED ITA-FAAJI BUILDING WERE SCAVENGERS – LAGOS BUILDING CONTROL
Few days after the collapse of a three-storey building at Ita-Faaji area of Lagos Island, which reportedly killed 20 people, three persons revealed as indigenes of the Northern part of the country according to the Lagos Building Control were recently rescued from the wrecked building.
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BlackBox Gathered from a reliable source that the three Northerners were said to be scavenging when the demolition of marked buildings was going on.
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Speaking on the collapse, director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasaki Musbau, stated that the rescued were occupants of the building.
He said:
“Information from our men on the ground at the scene showed that it was a partial collapse. They have removed four persons trapped in the building. They were all rescued alive.”
LASBCA General Manager, Lekan Shodeinde, reacting to the development, said there was no fresh building collapse in the state as being erroneously reported on the social media. He added that the three-floor structure was marked as distressed and was undergoing demolition.
According to him, the present administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode will leave no stone unturned to sanitize the building construction industry by removing all the distressed, illegal structures and buildings prone to collapse as well as those that were not in conformity with the state Building Laws.
The General Manager appealed to Lagosians to cooperate with the state government by moving out of all buildings marked as distressed and also stay away from demolition sites. He, however, re-emphasized that only LASBCA has the responsibility and professional expertise to determine whether a building is distressed or prone to collapse.
