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Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has approved the sack of Adeigbe Olushola, the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, in connection to the five-storey building that collapsed in Lekki, Lagos, claiming 34 lives.
In a statement issued Monday, Mr. Ambode also fired Adeoye Adeyemi, the Head of Inspection and Quality Control in the Agency; and Dosunmu Gbadebo, the Zonal District Officer in the Agency.
Sherifat Akinde, the Zonal Head of Eti-Osa West of LASBCA, was compulsorily retired from the Civil Service.
A statement by the Head of Service, Olabowale Ademola said that the affected officers were dismissed having been indicted of negligence, which according to the governor, is an act of misconduct under the Public Service Rule 040401, the Lagos State government.
He said:
“Rule 040401 of the Public Service act of misconduct states inter alia: ‘a willful act of omission or general misconduct to the scandal of the pubic or to the prejudice of discipline and proper administration of the State Government” should be visited with dismissal from the Public Service in line with the Public Service Rule 040503,’”
The Head of Service said the disciplinary measure was the outcome of the recommendations of the Personnel Management Board to Mr. Ambode, who was “personally grieved by the high number of fatalities that occurred as a result of the building collapse”.