Building collapse: Sanwo-Olu orders demolition of distressed buildings, prosecution of owner

The Lagos State Government has ordered the demolition of each distressed buildings surrounding the collapsed three-storey gathering astatine Alakija, on the Badagry Expressway, arsenic portion of efforts to forestall akin tragedies.

A connection by the Lagos State Government said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave the directive during an inspection of the illness tract connected Friday, wherever helium was represented by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso.

Speaking astatine the scene, Omotoso sympathised with the families of the victims and commended exigency responders for their swift effect to the incident.

He disclosed that 27 persons were rescued live from the rubble, portion 9 others mislaid their lives during the overnight hunt and rescue operation.

According to him, officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), the Police, the Command and Control Centre, the Neighbourhood Watch and different exigency agencies remained astatine the country passim the operation.

“Governor Sanwo-Olu is saddened by this incident. He sends his condolences.

“This should not person happened if radical had obeyed the instrumentality alternatively of prioritising livelihoods implicit lives. The collapsed building...