A three storey building comprising 6 flats at the 2nd and 3rd floor and shops at the 1st and ground floor, owned by a certain late Chief Eletu Toulet; and located at number 16 Ali street, Tinubu- Lagos island, collapsed on 10 rooms bungalow just beside it, on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, killing three occupants and injuring many others.
One of the victims identified as Bisiriyu Oluwaseun Anotu, a 500 level Business Administration student of the Lagos state University, Ikoyi campus who occupied an apartment on the last floor of the building, told our reporter that she was on a visit to her mother's with her husband and two children when she received a call that their building had collapsed.
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| Bisiriyu Oluwaseun Anotu (right), and a sympathizer |
"I rushed down only to see what used to be our home in shambles. Although we were served notice to vacate the building in August by the Lagos State Government on the ground that the building was not save for habitation, most of us stayed because we had no where else to go to, moreover our rent was still running. Mine was supposed to expire in December 2013, after which we planned to relocate, we did not anticipate things to turn out this way. I thank God that we were not injured, but we lost all our vital documents, including some large sum of money and my school documents. I want to appeal to the Lagos State Government to come to our aid, by interfering in the Lagos tenement rates and conditions. I paid the sum of N120,000 just for 'agency and agreement' to rent a N250,000 apartment. It is too high, that is why many of us opted to stay put in un-habitable houses even after being served notice to vacate the building". She stated.
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