Residents of Adewuyiwa Street, in the Oyingbo area of Lagos, has called on the state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to demolish house number 11 on the street for safety reasons.
Residents of the street confided in The Nation Newspapers that some part of the 3 storey building, belonging to the Gbajabiamila family collapsed last week Wednesday. It has 44 flats
Mr. Ganiyu Bulugbe, who once lived in the building, disclosed that he had paid for 5 years but was forced to move out when he noticed that something was wrong with the building.
“I learnt that it was a month after they vacated some tenants on the pretext of demolishing it that I rented the apartment. Having spent almost three years, I was given quit notice that the building was marked for demolition again. I remember when I tried to hang my kitchen shelf, the wall cracked and I brought out an empty cement sack from the wall. When we unscrewed anything, sand came out. It is that bad,” Bulugbe said.
Another woman, simply called Mama, who witnessed the incident last Wednesday, said she was thankful that there were no casualties from the incident.
“My husband and I were in the sitting room when we heard a huge sound. We fell on each other thinking the building had finally collapsed. Immediately, I thought of my son who just stepped out of the house. As I speak, they have three tenants living there. What if they were at home, would they have died? How can one build a structure and erect a pillar afterwards? It is not done. I was surprised to see they have placed vacancies on the building today (Thursday) after what happened. I urge the government to intervene because they have been claiming they are relations of the governor so we have no point,” Mama said.
Meanwhile, owners of the building debunked the rumour, narrating that the family was carrying out renovation on the affected part of the building.
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