The Lagos State Material Testing Laboratory Monitoring and Enforcement, has revealed what led to the collapse of the one storey building in Badagry, stating that an extra floor was added to the old bungalow.
Recall that on Wednesday, a storey building collapse at Sunny Filled, Flour Mills, Estate, Magbon, Badagry, Lagos.
Nine people were rescued, with some people sustaining injuries, while four construction workers died when the building came down on them as they were plastering the decking of the building.
According to an official of the Lagos State Material Testing Laboratory Monitoring and Enforcement, Okpe Rahmon, the steel used in the building was 10mm and 12mm, instead of 16mm.
He said, “We are here to pick samples from the building to enable us carry out further investigation to confirm those primary causes, in terms of materials, to find out what was responsible for the collapse. The test will confirm if it was caused by inferior materials and other related issues.
“It was on this bungalow that the extra floor was added, technically that is absolutely wrong because the foundation for the bungalow couldn’t have carried the extra load. So that is like sinking and compressing the existing building.
“So far, from our preliminary site investigation, we haven’t taken some of the samples to the laboratory, we can see that from the rubbles of the steel used, we haven’t seen 16mm, we have only seen 10 mm and 12mm.”
source: independent.ng
