Lagos building collapse: My heart bleeds – Gani Adams
The three-storey building, which had a school on one of its floors, caved in on Wednesday morning, leaving no fewer than 20 persons, including children, dead, and many injured.
“I feel sad that the lives of many of those promising adults and young pupils could be cut short in such manner. It is sad. My heart bleeds at the number of casualties.“The sorrow I feel now is overwhelming, seeing the way they were being evacuated from the rubble of the building. “At the same time, there is need for the state government to address the issue of building collapse urgently in the state, it is becoming too frequent. There should be standard in what we do as a people.
“Meanwhile, those contractors building the new ones, most times, use substandard materials, and nobody blinks an eye,” he said
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