A five-story building under construction on Sunday, April 23, coll@psed in Apapa, Lagos State, due to thunder str¥ke orchestrated by heavy rain fall.
This comes less than two weeks after a seven-storey building caved in on Banana Island, Lagos, k#lling one and leaving others inj¥red.
Mukaila Sanusi, Deputy Director, Public Affairs from the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday evening.
According to him, “The coll@pse incident, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, trigg£red 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.
There has been no report of any casualty, while the site has been cordoned off and taken over by LASBCA.
Lagos State Government has immediately activated inquiries into the coll@pse to unravel the minute details and guide appropriate actions.”
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