A structural engineer, Murtala Olawale, on Wednesday told the Lagos State panel of inquiry on the collapsed 21-storey building in the Ikoyi area of the state how the owner of the edifice, FourScore Heights Limited, altered its design, IgbereTV reports.
The panel began its inquest into the building collapse which killed 46 people last month on Wednesday.
Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, told the counsel to the Lagos State government, Mr. Akin George, that Fourscore altered the original four-storey building plan to 21-storey.
He added that the Managing Director of Fourscore Heights Limited, late Femi Osibona, had in November 2018 briefed his team that he wanted to build four-storey buildings of three blocks at Gerard Road in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The witness revealed that during work on the building design, Osibona reversed the brief to three blocks of 14-floors (ground plus 13 suspended floors).
