The Deputy Governor of Lagos state, Femi Hamzat, has issued a contradiction after a Lagos State government official was quoted saying only 15 floors were approved for the 21-storey building which collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Earlier, the general manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Gbolahan Oki, told newsmen the government approved 15 floors for the 21-storey building.
“He got an approval for a 15-storey building and he exceeded his limit. I am on ground here and the materials he used are so inferior and terrible,” Mr Oki was quoted by PremiumTimes.
Contradicting the claim above, the deputy governor said only 21 floors were approved and not 15 as claimed.
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“This particular one was approved for 21 floors, not 15. If you count, the second building was 14 or 15. The approval was done about three years ago, it is not something new, it is the construction that failed apparently from what we can see,” he said.
He also confirmed the earlier sealing of the building by the state government over poor construction.
“It was sealed from June. It was sealed because the agency came in to do a structural test, they saw some abnormalities, so they shut it down for those things to be corrected.
“They were making corrective actions when this (collapse) happened,” the deputy governor said.
