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Lagos Speeds Up Demolition Of Defective Buildings Following Death Of 14
Lagos Speeds Up Demolition Of Old Buildings With Structural Defects Following Death Of 14
LABSCA, The Lagos State Building Control Agency on Friday began the demolition of defective buildings on the Lagos Island.
Men of the agency’s task force pulled down a three-storey building on 60A, Freeman Street, Epetedo area.
The demolition exercise is not unconnected with the Wednesday incident around the same area, where a four-storey building collapsed, killing over 14 people and leaving scores injured.
LABSCA official, Mr. Omotayo Fakolujo, told The Nation that the property owner had been served several notices dating back to 2013 before the demolition.
He said that over 150 houses on the Lagos Island have been identified for demolition.
“On the Lagos Island, we have over 150 houses marked for demolition. We have removed over 30 in the last one year and we are going to be removing them in phase. What we are trying to do is to remove occupants from all these structures that have been marked so that no life is lost in Lagos.
For now on Lagos Island alone, we have a clear court case approval of over 80 cases and 80 structures that are ready for removal and we will do it in phases systematically from today (yesterday) so that life will be comfortable for Lagosians.
We will remove three today on Lagos Island. And for the houses that are still occupied, we are going to evict the occupants of the structures because their lives are more important to us.
“On our mode of demolishing, these structures are so close by; we have to remove them systematically, manually so that we can ensure that there is safety. The exercise is not prompted by the recent collapsed building. Before this incident, we had removed over 10 structures within Ajeromi Ifemodun and Apapa within the Ijora axis,” he said.
Contrary to previous experiences, residents and passers-by on Freeman Street, Epetedo, Lagos, praised the officials for the demolition exercise.
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Princess Kehinde Aderemi
March 16, 2019 at 4:50 AM
Stupid people why are rushing now.
Fifelomo
March 16, 2019 at 8:54 AM
Do the needful and let’s safe lives.
DB
March 16, 2019 at 3:11 PM
Nigerian government and fire brigade approach. Always waiting for disaster to happen before doing the right thing. You marked all those houses for demolition, so what happened? Dont give us half truths to save your corrupt heads. The corrupt Criminals just wasted the lives of innocent people
Nnamdi Ubadike
March 16, 2019 at 5:19 PM
It’s the right thing to do provided there are regulatory means of ensuring new substandard structures are not cropping up
Tina
March 18, 2019 at 9:41 AM
Please who has an email address or phone number to reach LABSCA Officials,they should please come to Abule Oja there are lot of houses their built by developmenters, they are not strong at all,kindly come to Abule Oja Obadina street Yaba lagos and verify,thanks.
Rosy
March 19, 2019 at 5:04 PM
No, they should leave those building to get more rents from them. Greedy landlords