The Lagos state government has
started pulling down buildings marked for demolition in Lagos Island.
Officials of the the Lagos State
Building Control Agency (LASBCA) are currently demolishing some houses at
Freeman street in Ita Faji.
The development comes two days
after a three-storey building on Massey street in the same area, caved in.
Twelve people, including nine
children, were killed in the incident while 50 were rescued.
On Thursday, the Lagos State
Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said it had rescued all the trapped
victims but some residents said people were still in the rubble.
When he visited the area after
the collapse, Akinwunmi Ambode, the governor, said some landlords had been
resisting the demolition of defective buildings.
He said this time around, the
government was prepared to pull down such structures.
“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 had said.
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