A
newly constructed four-storey building has collapsed in Lagos. The building
which is located on Landpark Street, Coker, Orile, Lagos, Sunday Sun gathered,
did not claim any casualty as it was said to be vacant at the time it
collapsed.
A source, who lives on that street, on the condition of anonymity said: “We were here when the building collapsed right in our presence. In fact, we were made to understand that the owner of the building had been here early today, like two hours before the building collapsed.” Many people have lamented the incident but expressed gratitude to God in the light of the fact that a lot of lives could have been lost had the property been already occupied by tenants.
Another source said he was surprised at the hurried manner reconstruction works resumed on the site, expressing doubts if the required inspection was done on the building by appropriate authorities before its reconstruction.
“Imagine, we even heard that the agent who is saddled with the responsibility of letting out the apartments had even started collecting money from prospective tenants and some people just came in now to remove the “to let” banner placed there. The police also came on their own and took pictures”, the source revealed.
An eyewitness said, “The building collapsed and everything about it went down. We were even there trying to take pictures but the dust was just too much that we couldn’t get better pictures.”
It was gathered that the engineer in charge of the building was said to have absconded since the building collapsed as no one knows his whereabouts since the incident happened.
A source, who lives on that street, on the condition of anonymity said: “We were here when the building collapsed right in our presence. In fact, we were made to understand that the owner of the building had been here early today, like two hours before the building collapsed.” Many people have lamented the incident but expressed gratitude to God in the light of the fact that a lot of lives could have been lost had the property been already occupied by tenants.
Another source said he was surprised at the hurried manner reconstruction works resumed on the site, expressing doubts if the required inspection was done on the building by appropriate authorities before its reconstruction.
“Imagine, we even heard that the agent who is saddled with the responsibility of letting out the apartments had even started collecting money from prospective tenants and some people just came in now to remove the “to let” banner placed there. The police also came on their own and took pictures”, the source revealed.
An eyewitness said, “The building collapsed and everything about it went down. We were even there trying to take pictures but the dust was just too much that we couldn’t get better pictures.”
It was gathered that the engineer in charge of the building was said to have absconded since the building collapsed as no one knows his whereabouts since the incident happened.
Source: Sunday Sun
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