Taking Stock of Itafaji Building Collapse via thisdaylive
Chiemelie Ezeobi and Sunday Ehigiator who for three days covered the rescue operations at the collapsed three-storey building in Lagos, write that poor crowd control management, lack of willpower on part of government and lackadaisical attitude of landlords of the structurally-defective houses are to be blamed for the disaster
Prior to the disaster, some of the pupils were outside observing their Physical Exercises in batches, while others were in the class waiting for their turn. He said that as at Friday morning, 14 persons are still receiving medical attention at Lagos Island General Hospital for various levels of injury. According to the Medical Director of Lagos Island General hospital, Dr Ismail Ganikale, more survivors will still be discharged from this hospital to their families.Preliminary investigation at the time of the collapse has pointed out some issues like old foundation, weak structure and a terrain that is prone to collapse.
Emergency services had to resort to pumping oxygen into the cracks to sustain those trapped. But did that send a message to the crowd to thin out? Certainly not, rather they kept swelling in their ranks. Some were there to while others swirled to make away with whatever loot they could lay their hands on. Some simply pickpocketed rescue workers and others in the crowd.
Lamenting she said: “My son Maleek clocked 10 on the day of the incident. Few days before his birthday, he told me that he wants to give his teacher a gift on his birthday and also his classmates in school. And I assured him I will give him all he wants to take to school when the day comes. When he first went to school that morning, he forgot the things I had bought for his birthday and what he was supposed to take to his teacher in school, so he returned back home for it.
She said, “we were blessed with twins-Taiwo and Kehinde Adeyemo and both attended the school located on the third floor of the building. Unfortunately, they were both involved in the accident and even though they were both rescued, we lost Taiwo shortly after. We burried him yesterday, while Kehinde is still receiving treatment at the hospital.”
“Like we have said, we have been carrying out a lot of integrity tests on the buildings in this neighborhood and as you can see, some of them have been marked for demolition but we get resistance from landlords. But we must continue to save lives and we would intensify our efforts to see that those have failed our integrity test, we would ensure that they are quickly evacuated and we bring the structures down.
Another area he faulted the government agencies that carried out rescue operations was the lack of adequate oxygen to go round the trapped children. Adeyemo also debunked claims that their building was marked for demolition and they refused to move. According to her, “we had no idea because the house was just renovated when we moved in. The landlord and agents never mentioned to us anything of such.
Thus last Friday, two days after the collapse occurred, LASBCA finally did the needful, a move many have termed medicine after death. But the agency would rather shift the blame. According to them, they had already secured approval to demolish over 80 cases of defective buildings in Lagos Island alone prior to the collapse.
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