Building Collapse: Ambode Urges Residents To Allow Rescue Operations – Channels Television

Building Collapse: Ambode Urges Residents To Allow Rescue Operations.

The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has visited the scene of the three-storey building collapse at the Ita Faaji area of Lagos Island, urging residents to allow rescue operations.

The governor upon arrival at the incident appealed to residents to allow rescue operators to carry out their operations without any hinderance, so as to rescue more children still trapped under the rubbles.“I want to commiserate with the families of those that lost their lives in this collapsed building. I want to quickly let Lagosians know that this is quite an unfortunate incident. All we are trying to do is to scale up this rescue operation.

“The Deputy Governor is in the hospital actually taking care of those that were rescued and taken to the hospital most especially the children. On the part of the government, we would immediately take care of whatever it is that we can do, including the hospital bills. He said most of the buildings in the area had been marked for demolition, but that some property owners in the area defy such notices, assuring that going forward, structural defective buildings would be demolished.

“Like we have said, we have been carrying out a lot of integrity tests on the buildings in this neighborhood and as you can see, some of them have been marked for demolition but we get resistance from landlords but we must continue to save lives and we would intensify our efforts to see that those have failed our integrity test, we would ensure that they are quickly evacuated and we bring the structures down,” he said.

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