…As RCCG Pastor and Femi Osibona, Property Owner Still Missing
The death toll in the 21-storey building that collapsed on Monday in Ikoyi, Lagos, has risen to 21.
Many others including Mr. Femi Osibona, owner and Managing Director, Fourscore Heights Limited, a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ola Ogunfuwa, and 22 artisans he hired at Ibafo area of Ogun State to work for him that fateful day, are still trapped in the rubble.
Ogunfuwa, an engineer, is the pastor of the RCCG, Living Water Parish, Ibafo.
Yesterday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu set up a six-man panel of experts to probe the incident. The panel will be inaugurated today. It is headed by the President of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners of Nigeria, Tayo Ayinde, while a lawyer in a private law firm, Ekundayo Onajobi, would serve as the secretary.
Other members are Dr Akintilo Adeleke, Yinka Ogundairo, Godfrey Godfrey, Mrs Bunmi Ibrahim and Mr Ekundayo Onajobi.
By Wednesday, nine people were rescued alive. Three of them have been discharged. The six injured survivors as Odutan Timileyin, 26; Ahmed Kinleku, 19, (Cotonou, Benin Republic); Sunday Monday, 21; Adeniran Mayowa, 37; Solagbade Nurudeen, 33; and Waliu Lateef, 32.