Building collapse: Sanwo-Olu blames FG for unapproved Banana Island extension

The governor stated this on Saturday when he led a delegation of government officials for an on-the-spot assessment to the site where a seven-storey building under construction collapsed in the high-brow area, killing one person and leaving 25 injured.

He said, “You have all seen the extent of what I will call unapproved extension into the water, at the back of each of the land that is abutting water. You can see that the original line for Banana Island is not even where we are. “It is way in front there and you can see that there are several extensions that have been granted by both the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and NIWA. These are the two federal agencies that have been culpable for those extensions. They have done these extensions even without our knowledge.”

When contacted, the Federal Controller, Ministry of Works and Housing, Housing Sector, Margaret Adejobi, denied the accusation by the governor, stating that since a 2003 Supreme Court judgment, the Federal Government had not granted approval for land or building in the state.

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