Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has ordered occupants in all houses built by Lekki Gardens to vacate their apartments in order for integrity test to be carried out on all the buildings to ascertain their safety.
The governor, who visited the scene of the five-storey collapsed building which
killed 34 people in Lekki area of Lagos, was obviously displeased with what he
saw and ordered immediate action.
Addressing
newsmen after the tour of the collapsed building site and other buildings owned
by Lekki Gardens, Ambode ordered integrity test to be carried out on all the
buildings by the company in Lagos to ascertain their safety.
He said the developer should take responsibility of the
relocation of occupants of the buildings as government would not wait for the
buildings to kill more people. “The State Government will undertake a stability
test on all other buildings constructed by the developer in the state, whether
occupied or not, to ascertain their structural stability. The developer will
pay the cost of the tests. Any building found to be defective would be
demolished.
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