BUILDING COLLAPSES IN LAGOS KILLING LANDLORD'S SON

The heavy rain two nights ago has caused a building in the early hours of yesterday collapsed during the heavy rainfall, killing the landlord’s son.

The building situated at No. 38/40, Shogbamu Street, Bariga, had one of its boys’ quarters collapsed killing a 21-year old, Olawale Hammed, whose building was situated at 2 Community Street, closely behind the affected building.

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Olawale, source at the scene of the incident said, was a son to the owner of the building behind the collapsed one. The source said the deceased who was killed at about 1a.m, and one other person identified as Bola Adesanya, were asleep when the building collapsed and fell on their apartment. It was gathered that the deceased died instantly.

A survivor, a 35-year-old Adesanya Bola, an I.T. engineer, who was on the same bed with the deceased, described his survival as miracle.

Bola said he never knew that the deceased was dead not until about 5am, when his body was pulled out of the rubble that covered both of them.

“All I knew was that I saw that I was pressed down by heavy object and knew that water had covered me, then I struggled to put away the object to get up. That was about 1.05am. It was around 5am I learnt that Hammed is dead.” Bola said

Another survivor, Mr. Durojaiye Oluwagbenga, who lives in the same building with the deceased, said though he was at the church when his wife and sister called and told him about the incident, said he had told them to call the deceased but was informed that he (the deceased) did not respond to their calls and that it was when he came back that it was learnt that the fellow was killed by the collapsed building

Oluwagbenga said his landlord had made several complaints about the collapsed building to the Lagos State government and all agencies concerned but no action was taken, not until when the building collapsed and killed the deceased.

He called on the state government to ensure that the landlord of the building was prosecuted.

Meanwhile, the collapsed building and other two that are defective have been sealed off by the officials of Lagos State Physical Planning and Development Authority, LASPPDA, who were at the site of the colapsed building.

Mr. Adekunle Rufai, who led the agency, said the incident happened due to the sliding of embankment of the colapsed building. He confirmed that one person was killed while another was injured.

Rufai also said that the other buildings were sealed off because of the defective conditions.