Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos state governor, has inaugurated a
tribunal to probe the collapse of a 21-storey building in Gerrard Road, Ikoyi.
He inaugurated members of the tribunal at an event held on
Thursday in Falomo, Ikoyi.
The governor also signed an instrument legitimising the
panel and empowering it to invite or summon parties useful to the
investigation.
Sanwo-Olu described the building collapse as a “sad one” for
Lagos, adding that the public deserves to know what went wrong.
He said: “We are gathered here to perform a sad but
necessary duty, which is the inauguration of a 6-member panel of inquiry into
the collapse of the 21-storey building at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, on Monday. It is
a solemn moment for me personally, but this is an important assignment. Indeed,
the generation coming after will not forgive us if we don’t do the right thing
in this incident.
“The inauguration of this panel shows sincerely that the
state government is interested in unravelling and getting to the root cause of
what happened to the building, so that everyone concerned, including the
Government, will learn from the very unfortunate incident. Lagosians and the
world will be watching and waiting keenly, with the full expectation that the
immediate and remote causes of this tragedy will be uncovered.”
Sanwo-Olu said he is counting on the expertise and
professionalism of the tribunal members in unravelling the cause of the
incident.
“What this tribunal
will be doing over the course of the next few weeks will have important
implications for building safety and for emergency response, not just in Lagos,
but in the entire country. It will also go a long way towards ensuring that the
families of the innocent victims of this avoidable tragedy experience some sort
of closure and get justice,” Sanwo-Olu said.
Toyin Ayinde, president of Nigeria Institute of Town
Planners (NITP), is the chairman of the panel, while Ekundayo Onajobi, a lawyer
in a private law firm, is the secretary.
Other panel members are a structural engineer, Akintilo
Idris Adeleke; an architect, Yinka Ogundairo; representative of Institute of
Builders, Godfrey O. Godfrey, and Bunmi Ibrahim, a real estate lawyer.
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