PHOTOS: Banana Island management refuses journalists access to collapsed building | TheCable BananaIsland
The incident was said to have happened when workers were inside the building.
Reacting to the incident, the Lagos state ministry of physical planning and urban development said a few people sustained injuries and no fatality.When TheCable visited the area on Thursday morning, access to the site of the collapsed seven-storey building was not granted. Private security personnel manning the estate told TheCable reporter and other journalists that the management directed that no journalist should be allowed to gain access into the estate.Advertisement
Shola Odukoya, an official of the Banana Island owners association, queried the journalists, saying they do not have permission to film the estate. The journalists responded that they did not come to the estate to film the premises, but the site of the collapsed building.Journalists under the canopyAnother batch of stranded building workers
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