According to reports from the collapsed seven-story building on Banana Island in Lagos State, some journalists who went to visit the site were denied entry.
WITHIN NIGERIA reported on Wednesday that on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, an unconfirmed number of people were reportedly trapped in a collapsed building in Lagos.
According to reports, the structure in question is currently under construction on Banana Island.
In a brief update Wednesday evening, the Lagos Territorial Head of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the incident, as emergency responders were mobilized to the scene as several onsite workers were trapped in the rubble.
On Thursday, however, journalists from various platforms such as The Punch, Channels TV, TVC, Arise, Guardian, and others were asked to wait outside the estate gate.
This came as journalists complained about being denied access to the collapsed building for nearly two hours.
However, in response to the long wait, estate management set up a tent for journalists and explained that “they don’t want hoodlums to gain access into the estate in order to prevent a breakdown of law and order.”
Meanwhile, LASEMA has confirmed that no one died at the collapsed building site.
In a statement titled;
Situation report on the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi’ on the agency’s Facebook page on Wednesday, it partly read, “Upon the arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the scene of the incident, a six-storey building under construction was found to have collapsed.
Information gathered revealed that the building collapsed as a result of a truck that ran into the building.
Fortunately, no loss of life, however, efforts are ongoing to reconstruct the building to ground zero to forestall any secondary incident. Recovery operations ongoing.