Real Reason Another Lagos Building Collapsed And Why The Govt Denied It | Jehu's Blog
Residents of 57, Egerton Square, Oke Arin, Lagos, have said the real reason for the collapse of a building in the area on Monday is that the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) engaged the services of quacks to bring down houses marked for demolition in the wake of the Ita Faji building collapse. When SaharaReporters visited the site of the collapse on Tuesday, partial demolitions were ongoing in front of the collapsed building. On Monday, Adesina Tiamiyu General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), had denied the collapse, saying “no building ever collapsed as being circulated online”. However, a witness, Adesesan Oladejo, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said: “I live in the next building. The building authorities came on Sunday that they wanted to demolish this building here. Around 1pm, they brought some ‘Mallams’ here and they started demolishing. “Instead of them to demolish from the top, they started from the bottom. It was the way they were doing it from beneath and the fact that they were so unprofessional that made the building collapse on them. You can see the roof is still intact. They didn’t start from the top, but we thank God. They were four victims; …