By AYO ALONGE
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TWO of the lucky survivors of last Tuesday’s building col­lapse at Ikate area of Lekki Phase1 have narrated their mirac­ulous escape.
A Beninoise who simply identified himself as Victor said his decision to join his other colleagues at the site on Tuesday saved him from the tragedy.
“We were supposed to do the roofing that day and I was somewhere else. The contractor had just brought in some roofing sheets to the site and the roofing of the building was to commence the following morning, the same day the build­ing came down. For me, I had the plans to come there that morning, to join them,” he said.
Victor who claimed to be a friend of a man who died alongside his wife and their six-month-old child, also narrat­ed how his friend, his wife and their baby died in the incident.
“My friend together with his wife and child, died in the building because he brought them the previous night. The contractor is owing people a lot of money and when my friend’s wife couldn’t tolerate her husband’s failure to give her money for her upkeep, the man decided to bring her to make her see the situation of things for herself. We also heard that we were going to be paid that morning and I think that must have made the woman to wait till the following day,” he added.
Speaking in the same vein, another worker at the site who could have probably been among the dead, told Sunday Sun reporter how he escaped the tragedy.
The man, who identified himself as Oriyomi Samuel, 30, a native of Oyo, said: “I was a driver and when I lost my job, I had to come here to work as a labourer, but on that fateful day, I wasn’t there. Most of the people did not leave the site because there were indications that we would be paid that very day the building collapsed.”
Meanwhile, Sunday Sun gathered that some of the sur­vivors who were injured in the tragedy had been discharged. A source at the Lagos Island General Hospital, Lagos, who pleaded anonymity, said that seven of the eight people brought to the hospital had been discharged.
“Eight people were brought here and they were immedi­ately placed in the intensive care unit. As I speak with you, it is only just one person that is left. All other seven have been discharged,” the source said.