A building under construction in Apapa area of Lagos State has collapsed on Sunday, and this happened barely two weeks after a seven-storey building under construction collapsed leaving one dead in the Banana Island area of the state.
Penpushing reports that spokesperson of the Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mukaila Sanusi the building which partially collapsed was as a result of the developer adamant posture to continue having being warned to stop work by the regulatory agency
The spokesman of the Ministry, in a statement, however, said no casualty has been recorded so far as at the time of filing this report, adding that the collapsed incident which was flagged on the physical planning incident management platform, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries
‘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,” the statement reads.
‘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 state 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”.
Penpushing further reports that Sanusi said the construction site has been cordoned off and taken over by its building control agency, stressing that this particular incident, like similar others, reinforces the government’s repeated calls for responsible behaviour on the part of all stakeholders in the built environment,
“This particular incident, like similar others, reinforces the government’s repeated calls for responsible behaviour on the part of all stakeholders in the built environment. Lagos State Government has immediately activated inquiries into the collapse to unravel the minute details and guide appropriate actions”
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