When greed governs, profits rise and buildings fall - A growing number of buildings are collapsing in Nigeria amid allegations of negligence, corruption
Adekemi Adekunle was invested in her studies at Tai Solarin University of Education in Ogun State in Nigeria. She worked hard. But on the first day of May this year, at around 10.45pm, her life came to an abrupt end when the apartment building in which she lived in Lagos collapsed.
A resident of the area, Lanre Shobaloju, said he suspected corruption was involved. “There is a chance that government officials were paid kickbacks,” he said. “The tragedy would have been averted if the tenants had been evacuated.” In April, Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola, a visiting scientist at Brookings Institute in the United States, published a study examining 167 building collapses in Lagos between 2000 and last year.
Developers appear to get away with constructing substandard buildings, and rake in rental income from people desperate for accommodation, with authorities either not aware or looking the other way.
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