Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday suspended the General Manager of the State Building Control Agency (LASBCA).Gbolahan Oki, over the collapse of a 21-storey building in the Ikoyi area of the state.
The 21-storey building collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday afternoon.
Ten corpses and nine survivors have been recovered so far from the wreckage since the operations started around 4 pm on Monday, according to the rescue teams from both the federal and state government agencies.
Oki had said on Monday that the owner of the collapsed 21-storey building was given the approval to construct only 15 floors.
But the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, during his visit to the scene of the incident on Tuesday contradicted Okai
Hamzat said “This particular one was approved for 21 floors, not 15. If you count, the second building was 14 or 15. The approval was done about three years ago, it is not something new, it is the construction that failed apparently from what we can see.”
He also confirmed that the building was earlier sealed by the state government for four months over poor construction.
