Emergency personnel rescue a child at the site of a building which collapsed in Lagos on March 13, 2019. – At least 10 children were among scores of people missing on March 13, 2019 after a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos, with rescuers trying to reach them through the roof of the damaged structure. The children were attending a nursery and primary school on the top floor of the residential building when the structure collapsed.
“The collapsed building had been marked for demolition about three times, but the building regulatory agency has not demolished it,” Awobudu said.The authorities began the demolition of such houses on Friday Adedoyin said she was full of regrets about her decision to send her children to Ohen Nursery and Primary School, which they had attended since they were three years old.
Unfortunately, the building, which doubled as a school and residential building, also had shops occupied by artisans and traders and was said to have been, several years back, a toilet before it was constructed. President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he was saddened by the incident, which mostly affected children.
Some breathed a sigh of relief as they saw the names of their loved ones on the list while others continued to hope and pray they would soon have news. Akinshina explained that he had buried one of the three children, Aaliyah, who did not survive after the collapse. Also, the founder, Give back Nigeria, Jenifer Soba Pearse, frowned at the fact that the reach and rescue team had been called off while some parents were yet to see their children, whether dead or alive.
“There were signs that the building would collapse anytime as stones kept falling off the building. When I was a teacher at the school, we had about 30 pupils. The school had been here for years. As of the time I was teaching there, we had five teachers”. “Look at the little children, the leaders of tomorrow who lost their lives here. We are pleading with the government to help us. This is not supposed to have happened. If you want accommodation in this part of Lagos Island, agreement fees and commission are about N200, 000 before you pay the actual rent. “Look at the houses government is constructing at Ilubirin; if they build something like that for the poor, it will do a lot of things in our lives”.
Another resident of Massey Street, Mrs Afolasade Moseere, said about 15 people were affected by her family, saying, however, that elders were meeting to fix the structures.
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