Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has recorded three major building collapse incidents in the last three months with no loss of life.

According to Director-General, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, there were minor and major collapsed buildings but they had only witnessed three major collapsed buildings in the last three months while few people that sustained injuries were treated and discharged.

Oke-Osanyintolu appealed to the citizens of Lagos State to key into the Vision and Mission of this administration, saying in as much government was doing everything humanly possible to ensure no building collapsed, people need to ensure they get proper approval in building their structures.

He said they should also ensure they do not build their houses in such a way that would prevent the free-flow of water.

“They should ensure that they use good materials in building their structures and those people that had built their structures for a long time, need to maintain it,” Oke-Osanyintolu said.

According to him, we have a Solid Material Testing Agency to test their structures regularly.

He warned that LASEMA would sanction anybody that violates the rules and regulations of building houses in Lagos State.

Oke-Osanyintolu mentioned crowd-control as the major challenge the agency usually faced during rescue operations in cases of disasters, saying right now, the agency had overcome the challenge as a result of continuous sensitisation.

He noted that the sensitisation of stakeholders through the local governments and residents of Lagos had built confidence in the agency, whereby people quickly reached out to the agency whenever there were disasters.

Oke-Osanyintolu said LASEMA had security personnel being trained to control the crowd at the scene of emergency disasters, saying that the agency was looking forward to achieving maximum success in the area of crowd-control.

The director-general said the agency also had a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with some consulting firms and had all the equipment to respond to any form of emergency in the state.