Read the press statement below...

The Lagos State Government has expressed its condolences over the death of construction site workers who lost their lives on Tuesday as a result of the collapse of a five-storey building under construction on Kushenla Road, Ikate Elegushi, Lekki. In a press release issued on Wednesday and signed by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the Lagos State Government also announced that

Based on preliminary reports and investigation, it was discovered that the collapsed building was served contravention notice for exceeding the approved floors and thereafter sealed by the Lagos State Building Control Agency.


It added that it has also been discovered that in a brazen act of defiance and impunity, the owners of the building, Messrs Lekki Worldwide Estate Limited, the promoters of Lekki Gardens, criminally unsealed the property and continued building beyond the approved floors until the unfortunate incident of Tuesday which has led to loss of lives.


The statement added that arising from the Lagos State Executive Council meeting decision on Wednesday, the State Government will no longer tolerate the action of unscrupulous owners and builders who challenge its supervisory control thereby endangering the lives of Lagosians.

The State Government has consequently directed the suspension of work at the site and ordered the Lagos State Police Command to cordon it off as it is now a crime scene.

The government also directed further integrity tests be carried out on every other construction project which has or is currently being handled by Messrs Lekki Worldwide Estate Limited in the interest of public safety.

Furthermore, the release quoted the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode as saying that all directors of Lekki Worldwide Estate Limited are strongly advised to submit themselves to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police within the next twenty four hours in their own interest or face immediate arrest.

The statement also commended the timely response and remarkable intervention by the combined men of the Lagos State Emergency Authority (LASEMA), the Lagos State Fire Service, Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS), Red Cross, National Emergency Agency (NEMA), Lagos State Building Control Agency and the Rapid Response Squad (RRS).

The Lagos State Government also warned that it will no longer be business as usual stating that any developer either on existing or new building projects who fails to comply with building and construction regulations or attempts to subvert the law will henceforth face criminal prosecution.


SIGNED
STEVE AYORINDE

COMMISSIONER, INFORMATION AND STRATEGY

LAGOS STATE

MARCH 9, 2016

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/03/lagos-state-releases-statement-on-lekki.html

GOBE

Obey d last order

If any law was broken then the company should face the music.

That contractor enter serious problem.
NSE problem
Town planning problem
State problem
Police problemproblem
Nema problemproblem

All because of poor construction and disobeying state officials

Most buildings in Lagos especially are built with sub-standard materials.

Ambode is working, I love Ambode

eyahhh

londonrivals:

Based on preliminary reports and investigation, it was discovered that the collapsed building was served contravention notice for exceeding the approved floors and thereafter sealed by the Lagos State Building Control Agency.
It added that it has also been discovered that in a brazen act of defiance and impunity, the owners of the building, Messrs Lekki Worldwide Estate Limited, the promoters of Lekki Gardens, criminally unsealed the property and continued building beyond the approved floors until the unfortunate incident of Tuesday which has led to loss of lives.

If this is true, then all the Directors of the company should be prosecuted and jailed for manslaughter.

I really pray and hope this incident will birth the implementation of proper Building standards and regulations in Lagos and in Nigeria

Property prices go fall.




ThefakeStan

Sad about the loss of lives but really i love this kind of news, where we hear of arrests of the hitherto high and mighty in our country. One step at a time, we shall get there.

This is nonsense, i bet if the building didnt collapse the state officials would have continued to enjoy their loot. This has been going on for long and all Lagos state officials supervising Lekki gardens projects are culprits. The officials should also be prosecuted.

Good

A welcome development.

Na to go buy land from them quick quick

Why does the X on th building say 08/03/2016?

Did the State Government only determine that adjacent buildings were structurally deficient yesterday?

Where have the Building Control Agency been since the construction started?


(Image via http://dailypost.ng/2016/03/08/death-toll-rises-in-lekki-gardens-building-collapse-photos/)

Lobatan!!

All these building construction agent buyin substandard building material in Nigeria, thereby endangering the lives of common men in the society

E don hapen.

Developers will always cut corners

Nice move by the state govt. I don't know why we can't do things right in this country.

end time collapsing of houses due to the insensitivity of some unscrupulous individuals

He who have hears should listen... stop patronizing quack

Greediness is bad, dis is pure Man inhumanity to man, imagine d lives of poor labourers who v gone to work jst to put food on d table....out of greediness and quest for more moni, developers ignored Govt directives of not building up to 5 storey and went ahead to build on.....how can God 4give such murderers?

An agent of the Lagos Building Control Agency would be very much aware that building work has resumed on the previously sealed property.
It's high time these builders are prosecuted and jailed for manslaughter.
RIP to the dead.

Good

Action.

Ambode ti de fun won bayi.

The rate at which people are dying these days is just too alarming... may God continue to save us all

Honestly, the Code of Hammurabi should be used on this if found guilty:

The code includes what could be considered building codes of a sort:

229. If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230. If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.

231. If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

232. If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.

233. If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.

Serious Gobe

About time they face the music though especially with the fact that they have so many unsatisfied customers

You can even visibly see the design flaws on their completed buildings. I couldn't but shake my head seeing such on one of their completed estate around chevron lekki

Location Images via GoogleEarth

Note dates and extent of sand filling

*This doesn't imply that sand filling is 'evil' but that DUE DILIGENCE & OVERSIGHT need to be carried out to the nth degree on sand filled sites*

ALSO PLEASE IS THERE ANY EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) CARRIED OUT FOR ALL THIS SAND FILLING IN THE LEKKI AXIS?

First image date is 01/05/2000
Second image date is 08/12/2015

cc brabus, lalasticlala, seun

At the end of the day nobody go enter jail
Same problem with Nigeria government
The one a whole FG build dey fall anyhow on top people nothing happen
Our government are useless