Collapsed Tower: Femi Osibona’s body recovered, as death toll hits 40

Reports coming in today has it that two more bodies have been recovered from the Ikoyi building that collapsed on Monday.

This brings the total recovered bodies to 40.

As at yesterday…

The death toll in the 21-storey building that collapsed on Monday on Gerrard Road, in the Ikoyi, Lagos, has increased to 38, as the owner of Fourscore Homes, the company in charge of the building, Femi Osibona, was recovered dead yesterday.

An official of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, who confirmed the development to TheCable at the site, said rescue workers recovered Osibona’s body yesterday evening. The body was said to have been taken to the morgue

The development came on a day Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu declared three days of mourning for victims of the collapsed building and inaugurated a six-man independent investigation team which was given 30 days to submit its report.

The 21-storey building crumbled around 2p.m. on Monday when workers were on the site.

The South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, also confirmed that 33 males and three females had been brought out dead from the rubble, bringing the total number of casualties to 38.

Farinloye added that nine people, including a female and eight males, were rescued alive.