Lagos State Government said that a three-floor building under construction that partially collapsed on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the Lagos State Building Control Agency.
By Jeffrey Agbo
A building has collapsed in the Apapa area of Lagos, throwing residents into anxiety on Sunday.
This is coming barely 24 hours that Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu ordered the demolition of three buildings on Banana Island over infractions.
“The Lagos State Government Sunday said that a three-floor building under construction that partially collapsed on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA and continued construction behind the scene,” Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Mukaila Sanusi, said in a statement.
“The collapse incident, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries that showed that officers of the States Building Control Agency had issued a number of contravention notices, stop work and seal up orders which the developer ignored and carried on construction without any recourse, whatsoever, to the authorities.”
The building on Ladipo Oluwole Street, GRA Apapa, Lagos, was learnt to be under construction before it caved in.
