PUNCH
Another three-storey building, on Sunday, collapsed in the Apapa Government Reserved Area of Lagos State.
The building under construction, located on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa, caved in barely two weeks after a seven-storey building collapsed in Banana Island in the state.
The state government had claimed that the developers of the Banana Island building, which claimed one life, embarked on the construction without a permit.
In a similar allegation, the state government also accused the developers of the Apapa building that partially collapsed on Sunday of ignoring its orders on the project.
Our correspondent reported that there was no casualty figure in the partial collapse as construction workers were said to be on Eid-el Fitri break when the incident occurred on Sunday.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the buidling collapse shortly after the downpour recorded in parts of the statement.
In a statement by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of the Ministry for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mukaila Sanusi, the state government said the builders ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the state Building Control Agency and continued construction behind the scene.
