Lagos Begins Demolition Of 300 Buildings |The Source

By Fola James

The Lagos state government has revealed that it has earmarked 300 defective buildings for demolition before the end of the year.

Abiola Kosegbe, General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency, who spoke during an event themed ‘Prevention of building collapse: A collective responsibility’, said the state government marked the buildings for demolition after investigation that showed that they are depressed.

She, however, stated that recent statistics indicate that buildings collapse in the state has reduced tremendously.

According to her “Right now, we have a list of almost 300 suspected buildings. This is based on our own visual inspection.

“The initial thing we do is visual inspection. If we carry out visual inspection of your property and we believe that it appears distressed, that is the initial thing; it is not a scientific thing.

“Then, we will mark it and serve you the necessary services and tell you to go and conduct your non-destructive integrity test.

“Some will ignore and some will comply. When you comply and you have gone for your test, the next thing is to engage an engineer to do a complete structural assessment of your property and submit that report to us.

“If they have carried out their report and have been cleared, they can go on with their building.

“But on the other aspect, if it fails, we tell you immediately, this property needs to be removed. Then we take all the necessary steps to ensure that nobody files any legal matter against us.”