Lagos marks 300 distressed buildings for demolition

The General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mrs Abiola Kosegbe, said it has listed about 300 buildings that it suspected could be distressed as well as carrying out investigation them for possible demolition.

Mrs Kosegbe, dropped the hint during an event tagged ‘Prevention of building collapse: A collective responsibility’ in Ikeja, Lagos.

She said the listed buildings were based on their own visual inspection, adding that statistics showed that the incidence of building collapse has reduced compared to last year.

She explained that the reason for marking buildings under construction were because preventing building collapse was the duty of everyone.

According to her “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.”