Lagos Blames Developers As Another Three-Storey Building Under Construction Collapses

Another three-storey building, on Sunday, collapsed in the Apapa Government Reserved Area of Lagos State.

The building under construction, located on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa, caved in barely two weeks after a seven-storey building collapsed in Banana Island in the state.

The state government had claimed that the developers of the Banana Island building, which claimed one life, embarked on the construction without a permit.

In a similar allegation, the state government also accused the developers of the Apapa building that partially collapsed on Sunday of ignoring its orders on the project.

Meanwhile, there was no casualty figure in the partial collapse as construction workers were said to be on Eid-el Fitri break when the incident occurred on Sunday.

According to reports, the buidling collapse shortly after the downpour recorded in parts of the statement.

In a statement by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of the Ministry for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mukaila Sanusi, the state government said the builders ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the state Building Control Agency and continued construction behind the scene.

The News Agency of Nigeria quoted the statement as saying that the collapsed building, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries.

According to it, investigations show that officers of the LASBCA had issued many contravention notices, stop work and seal up orders which the developer ignored and carried on construction without any recourse to the authorities.

The statement added that there was no report of any casualty, while the site had been cordoned off and taken over by LASBCA

“This particular incident, like similar others, reinforces governments repeated calls for responsible behaviour on the part of all stakeholders in the built environment.

“Lagos State Government has immediately activated inquires into the collapse to unravel the minute details and guide appropriate actions,” the statement said.

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