LAGOS: NEMA Mobilizes CCECC To GNI Building Collapse Site

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA has mobilised the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC to the site of the Great Nigeria House gutted by fire in Marina.

This is in response to the request by the Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu for federal agencies to give a helping hand in bringing down the 22 storey building to make way for excavation work.

NEMA’s Director, Search & Rescue, Air Commodore Usman Bature and the Agency’s Head of Operations in Lagos, Tunde Mohammed led the chinese Company to the site.

Governor Babajide Samwu- Olu on his second visit to the site said no excavation work can be carried out except the building is brought down for the Safety of emergency workers.

The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation has since mobilised Equipment to site awaiting further directives to commence work.

Recall that the Lagos State Government had directed residents and businesses around the burnt Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) building to leave immediately.

The Government sent in experts who evaluated the site of the fire and warned strongly against the inherent danger to lives and property of residents and businesses within 100 meters radius of the site.

Several buildings around the scene of fire are compromised and must be evacuated, according to experts.

Shop owners are breaking into the no movement barrier zone created at the perimeter of the scene of fire. This is dangerous and must stop.

The 25-storey building got burnt on December 24.