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School building collapse: LASBCA responsible for mass murder - Concerned Nigerians say


 Concerned Nigerians have blamed the Lagos State Government and the Lagos State Building Control Agency( in the Ministry of Physical Planning) for the collapse of three-storey building housing Baden School in Isale-Eko, Lagos Island, which trapped more than 100 school pupils and other occupants of the building.

Recall that the building was marked for demolition by LASBCA, because it was discovered to be structurally distressed.



 According to Titi Ajirotutu, spokesperson of LASBCA, the building that caved in had been marked for demolition since last year because it was discovered by the Agency to be distressed. She expressed shock over the collapse of the same structure.

The building housing the school situated at Itafaji Street, near Adeniji Adele was said to have caved  around 10:20 on Wednesday as 12 people including children feared dead as 43 others injured while 41 persons currently receiving treatment in the Marina General  hospital.

Mr. Kunle Awobodu, 1st Vice President, Nigerian Institute of Building NIOB, and the immediate past President of Building Collapse Prevention Guild BCPG, while reacting to the incident said, “From our findings which revealed over 1000 structures were distressed, we had also recommended that those structures should be earmarked for demolition in Lagos Island.

A concerned Nigerian,  Kingsley Obom-Egbulem in his reaction noted that the arrest of owner of the building would serve as deterrent to other culprits, this according to him would send an eloquent message to them that perpetrators would be punished no matter their standing in the society.

He said, “Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency( in the Ministry of Physical Planning)who ought to have brought down the building , the owner of the building(who resisted) and those who went to set up a school in such decrepit building murdered those kids. And they were aided by whoever saw the "marked for demolition" sign on the property and still went to live there or send his /her kids to school there.

He however charged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to use this tragedy to prove to Lagosian that he is not another bodybag-loving Governor, especially when the bodies in the bags are those of innocent children who just want to be educated. According to him, someone must pay dearly, jailed and forever regret being heartless for murdering these kids.

Ariyo-Adeniji, on his Facebook wall, revealed that it is likely that the officials of LASBCA would have visited the building marked the building and must have been tipped a couple of times before the collapse.

He disclosed that similar tragedy has been happening in Lagos Island almost every year. According to him, some Lagos elites actually come from those places,I mean their family houses are in those areas.



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