A two-storey building on Winners Way Junction, Ashi Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, collapsed, injuring a security guard.
Our correspondent gathered that a vehicle parked behind the building was also damaged.
The head of the vigilantes in the area, Olusegun Adeagbo, said, “The building started caving in around 10pm. When I noticed, I went to wake the security guard attached to the building and as he was making his way out, the first part of the building collapsed.”
A resident, Serifatu Lateef, said when she first heard the blast of the collapse, she thought a trailer hit the building.
A pharmacist, Mr Gabriel Bakare, who owned a drug store in the building, said, “I received a call around 2:45am that the building collapsed. I could not leave my house by that time because where I reside is far from this place. But by 6am when we got here, we saw that everything was gone; goods worth millions were in the building when it collapsed.
“The owner of the building is trying to cover up the incident because we have yet to see any government agency. When something like this happens, there should be investigations to know where the failure came from, but we haven’t seen anyone yet.”
The Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Adewale Onifeso, said investigation had commenced into the incident.
“Thankfully, no life was lost,” he added.
