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It’s been eight months and one week since a failed elevator killed Vwaere Diaso, a medical doctor at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos State. FIJ can confirm that the elevator has neither been fixed nor replaced.

The workers who reside in the 10-storey building, where the elevator is stationed, have been using the stairs since August 2023, when the doctor died and the state government sealed the elevator area.

When our reporter visited the hospital on Thursday, she found that the elevator area had been cordoned off with a wooden structure carrying a paper signpost.

The signpost bore the logo of the Lagos State Government and had phrases like “Restricted Area,” “Construction Site,” and “No Unauthorised Access.”

The signpost also had a phone number that showed the name “Lagos Safety Commission” when FIJ searched it on Truecaller, a caller identification app.

Although there was no worker or machinery in sight, close to the entrance of the doctors’ quarters was a big logo of Julius Berger, a leading construction company in Nigeria.

Close to the logo was a signpost indicating that the company was the contractor in charge of the “Rehabilitation Works at Doctor’s Quarters General Hospital Odan Lagos”. The duration written on the signpost was 32 weeks, from February 2024 to September 2024.

A female hospital staff member who stays in the building told FIJ that the elevator area had been sealed off for a while and there was no certainty on when it would be fixed.

“They haven’t fixed it. It’s been sealed for some time now. And we really have no idea when it will be fixed,” she said.

FIJ called the Lagos State Safety Commission, whose number was obtained on the signpost in the elevator area, but the calls were unanswered. A message sent to the commission has also not been responded to.

FIJ also ed Gbenga Omotoso, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information, and he inquired about the last time the reporter visited the hospital. When he got a response, he said, “There is work going on there. When the accident happened, we said we were going to fix not just the elevator but the whole building because there are so many other things to be fixed.”

He also said that the construction was being handled by Julius Berger and added, “I hope you know it’s not a backyard construction company.”

Aside from the Julius Berger marker, FIJ noticed no indications that the structure was undergoing any ongoing repairs.

https://fij.ng/article/confirmed-8-months-after-lagos-govt-yet-to-fix-elevator-that-killed-doctor-in-odan-general-hospital/

Una think say na by paper propaganda





I wish the Igbos can just sell off all their properties and move out of Lagos let’s see what will become of the almighty Lagos





A barren state without a single drop of any natural resources

It will be fix once a celebrity or an elite falls victim. That's how Nigeria works.



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When the uselèss sanwo olu wife said it was spiritual, what do you expect?

I am sure the uselèss woman won't say that trash if the victim was her daughter she married off few days ago.

Same people orchestrated the lekki tollgate massacre

Heartless bstards

This is Nigeria! Infrastructural decay KILLED a young Doctor and no one faced any consequences.

Everybody is going about their lives like NOTHING happened.

This is another reason people FLEE this hellhole. In a country like US, work place hazards like these would have incited a serious of lawsuits against the government. Some to the tune of millions of Dollars for the benefit of the family of the deceased.

Paying through the nose for negligence would have motivated the government to gear up and FIX the issue.

Imagine taking OVER 8 months to fix ORDINARY elevator. If Julius Berger won't do it ASAP, take the contract to someone who will.

Every SANE person should be working to leave Nigeria.

wow

There is no dignity or respect for human life in Nigeria. The politicians will just loot us dry and the project they refused to build will be killing people. Yet we the citizens will just be fighting each other.

If you have the means, japa and go and leave in a better society.

Hmmm

Obidients, make we run am? We can still fix this elevator, we are capable!

Interesting... the elevator has neither been fixed or replaced isn't the problem, the real problem is, hope the late Doctor's family have been given what is rightly hers.

Negligence on the part of the government. I hope this news get to the appropriate authorities to fix the elevator

Maintenance culture has been our Achilles heel since time immemorial and overall, We take things for granted here

Hehehe

What are they waiting for?

Until it kills another person?

They should do the needful please.

God bless Lagos.

Gif bless SW.

God bless Nigeria

Until another one happen, then dem go cry small and continue...


Naija, a country where life is cheap and anything goes.

Even if they fix it many will avoid that death trap

Bad habit

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https://fij.ng/article/confirmed-8-months-after-lagos-govt-yet-to-fix-elevator-that-killed-doctor-in-odan-general-hospital/

Do you think Lagos is being governed by OBS, may be Oga at the top have not find any tout to buy the lift. Until the next incident, when they will make noise like eureka can. Irony is that some good for nothing urchins will be defending them. Until the devil fires the next arrow. Iree oo.

But they can dash someone that travel from England to lagos by road brand new car

And when election time is around.. dey go to computer village to repair fone and go to saloon do eyes service.

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This is Nigeria

nlfpmod:


https://fij.ng/article/confirmed-8-months-after-lagos-govt-yet-to-fix-elevator-that-killed-doctor-in-odan-general-hospital/

Dummies still don't understand what it means to run an entire state not just by proxy but by using an actual crackhead

The werey is rather using over 200 million from lagos money to buy wristwatch and yet you have folks like yarimo , person wey never chop for 5 days, ready 24/7 to defend him

See as the werey dey shine teeth

Well well well...

Here is a part of the world where life's value is nothing next to a cow's dung's.
It's a place where NEGLIGIENCE pervades the air until one's directly affected and gets caught in the web of the situation.
I wonder what would've happened if the SHOES had fitted somebody else!

Honestly, mm* I think it's hightime we moved forward by totally cutting off these avoidable occurences that can be achieved through selflessness, honesty, dedication and contentment plus *patroitism !

BUT Never! Yeye GREED to embezzle no go gree ddem.

C

He is busy hunting for Igbo businesses just to please his paymaster!

Arobaga:
Una think say na by paper propaganda





I wish the Igbos can just sell off all their properties and move out of Lagos let’s see what will become of the almighty Lagos





A barren state without a single drop of any natural resources

Tell your igbos to go drink the natural resources in your land then? Why did you leave all your natural resources and came to Lagos to become nuisances. Your skull seems to be devoid of a brain.
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And by the way, this same Lagos is richer than all your regions combined generating the highest revenue for the country even 'without a single drop of natural resources' all your wealthy people are living-off Lagos. Lagos is the dream land for all your people...but you open your stinking mouth and say trash online.
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No government is perfect and I believe the media like this is meant to checkmate them. But abeg no dey ever compare Lagos to your slums in your entire miserable life again.
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You can't even work nor live comfortably in your slums, unknown gunmen and your Ekpa thugs are beheading you guys anyhow claiming to fight the FG, you ran to Lagos like a common criminal but you get the bad mouth to insult that city? How many of your slums have an inter-city metro to start with?
Lagos alone has two.
As someone based outside Nigeria but not a Lagosian, I post beautiful videos of advancements and the skyline of Lagos on my WhatsApp status all the time.
My white friends are always surprised Nigeria is that beautiful. If only they knew the only place in Nigeria with such beautiful facilities and skyline is Lagos.
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But I am glad Nigeria has a city like Lagos.
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So oga...grow some brains before participating in online discussions.
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All these kids wey dey wake their papa from sleep with foot kicks seff

Offpoint1:
I dedicate this space to all punters today... Only us will understand why

Loserpool you mean?

Perhaps CMD don embezzle funds

What a shame. Last I heard of the governor, he was gifting a house and whatnot, to an influencer. Priorities.