LASEMA Exhumes Mother, Sister, Two Sons in Magodo Building Collapse

AgegePulse Magazine

A mother, her two children and sister died on Saturday 12th, October at Magodo in a collapsed building incident during the morning's rainfall

The woman Mrs Jumiah Utache, mother of two children, two year old Domino Utache, a year old Daniel Utache and nine year old Faith Emmanuel, (wife's sister) all died at 48 Arisha Water Front Otun Araromi Street, Magodo Phase 1 when their building collapsed.

The incident which occurred during the morning's heavy rainfall before midday, saw the husband, Mr. Emmanuel Utache, who sustained different degrees of injuries being rushed to a hospital in an unknown destination before arrival of LASEMA for the rescue operation.
 LASEMA Officials  bagged remains of the dead Utache family and relative and handed over to their extended family members.

Lagos Denies Fresh Incident Of Building Collapse

By GEORGE OKOJIE

AgegePulse Magazine

The Lagos State Government on Monday debunked rumour making the rounds in the state that a building on 57 Egerton Square, Oke Arin on Lagos Island collapsed with people trapped.


The state government trending reports online, including videos that another building had collapsed on Lagos Island is coming on the heels of a three storey building that killed 20 pupils and an adult in Lagos Island.

The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, (LASEMA), Adesina Tiamiyu while debunking that no building collapsed on Lagos Island said what happened was that officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, (LASBCA), were demolishing the building on Egerton Square and that a scavenger got injured while trying to pick up something from the building.


Also, LASBCA officials who were at the scene said there was no collapsed building and that they were pulling down a structure when a scavenger tried to pick up something and was injured.

LASBCA Public Affairs Officer, Titi Ajirotutu denied that a building collapsed on Lagos Island, saying that the building was under demolition and that one person who was trying to pick up something from the building was seriously injured, while dismissing various online reports of a collapsed building.

However, an eye-witness who craved anonymity said the building did not collapse on its own, but that it was being demolished.

Corroborating LASEMA boss, the Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasaki Musbau said he learnt that there was a demolition ongoing on the Island.

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