South-South Traditional Council of Chiefs Lagos Condole With Victims’ Families Of Collapsed Building

LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of South-South Traditional Council of Chiefs Lagos State (SSTRCL) has expressed their deepest condolences to family of those who lost their loved ones in the collapsed building located in Ita-Faji area of Lagos Island, Lagos state. They also wished those injured fast recovery.
Scores, including school pupils were among those reported to have lost their lives after a three-storey building located on Massey Street, in Ita-Faji, Lagos Island, collapsed on Wednesday. The school of the pupils was located on one of the floors of the building. Aside the dead, many other persons injured were rescued from the rubble and taken to different hospitals for treatment.
Commiserating with the families of the victims in a statement signed by Chief Godspower Ikpimi and Chiefs Mrs Tammy Wokocha, Secretary-General and Publicity Secretary of South-South Traditional Council of Chiefs respectively, the group described the incident as tragic occurrence, stressing that they do not deserve to die the way they did.
The group while praying to God to grant comfort to their families and grant the repose souls of those young ones, said if the collapsed building which had been found to be weak and marked for demolition and everybody had done what was required of them, perhaps this terrible incident would have been averted.
“On its part, the government must fast-track demolition arrangements once a building is discovered to be weak and deserved of being pulled down to save lives,” the statement advised.
The group equally advised that the Lagos State Material Testing Laboratory for Buildings should be strengthened and the officers should carry out their work appropriately.
According to them, governments laid down regulations on building construction and maintenance must be faithfully respected and enforced so as to avoid the occurrence of such dastardly incidence in future.
“To mobilise support for these regulations, Community Development Associations (CDAs) need to come to governments aid. Above all, we must all take appropriate lessons and learn from this sad incident,” the group advised..

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