THREE major reasons may be responsible for the levity with which governments treat incidents of collapsed buildings - relations of the dead are too poor to seek any legal redress, the owners of the building are too powerful, and the civil servants who issue illegal approvals protect themselves.
Last week's collapse of a four-storey structure in Idi Araba, Lagos, with loss of 11 lives merely lengthened statistics of collapsed buildings. Hardly a week passes without a new case being reported, especially in our urban areas.
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