Tragedy foretold: Over 1000 buildings marked for demolition including tragic house vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Unless something urgent is done, we may be witnessing more building collapses, as over 1000 buildings in Lagos Island have been allegedly certified distressed.
According to him, Lagos Island which used to be the historical base of Brazilian returnees, and a symbol of magnificent buildings, has become a citadel of building collapse because of activities of quack developers. Insisting that political influence in Lagos Island has greatly contributed to the incessant collapses in the sprawling environment, Awobodu said the way forward is for the state government to as a matter of urgency set up a special task force to check the rate at which buildings are collapsing in the area.
Emergency and rescue personnel are seen at the site of a building which collapsed in Lagos on March 13, 2019. – At least 10 children were among scores of people missing on March 13, 2019 after a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos, with rescuers trying to reach them through the roof of the damaged structure. The children were attending a nursery and primary school on the top floor of the residential building when the structure collapsed.
It would be recalled that last year the state government disclosed that it had identified 149 distressed buildings across the State in the last one year, out of which 40 have been demolished. “In a systematic approach to curtail occurrences of building collapse, 149 distressed building were identified at different locations of which 40 of such have been removed while the next phase of 38 structurally defective structures have been earmarked for removal. Others would follow suite to safeguard lives and property,” he said.
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