Lagos State Government on Sunday disclosed that the developers of the collapsed three-storey building at Ladipo Oluwole Street, GRA, Apapa area of the state ignored unsealed a stop work order and continued construction before the eventual collapse.
Reacting to the incident, Lagos Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Tayo Bamigbose-Martins, through the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of the ministry, Mukaila Sanusi, stated that no casualty was recorded at the scene of the incident.
Her words: “he collapse incident, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries that showed that officers of LABSCA 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.
