Banana Island: Brokers question contractors over building collapse
A seven-storey building, under construction at Banana Island, Ikoyi, collapsed on Wednesday at about 5:00p.m., while concreting was going on at the sixth floor.
The National Emergency Management Agency, in a statement, said no death was recorded, but workers were trapped in the building and a reponse team had been mobilised to search for those trapped in the building.
Rotimi Edu, president of NCRIB, also in a statement, described the incident as a case of negligence by the building experts who undertook the construction.
“Though, no casualty was reported, the collapse brings to questioning the continuous recalcitrance of building contractors to adhere to extant regulatory prescriptions concerning public buildings in the country,” Mr Edu said.
According to him, the sensitivity of public buildings necessitates the need for builders and owners to imbibe insurance policies.
He listed such policies as the Public Liability, Contractors All Risk (CAR) and other prescription of sections 64 & 65 of the Insurance Act, with regards to public buildings.
The NCRIB president said if these insurance policies had been in place, the risk of total loss incurred by the owners of the collapsed buildings would have been greatly reduced.
Mr Edu called on the Lagos government to expedite investigation on the cause of the building collapse. He also advised the state government to urgently apprise the public with the result of the findings and actions to be taken, to avert future building infractions in the state.
(NAN)
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