“Around 11pm, I suddenly woke up feeling uneasy. I roused the other two people staying with me and asked them to start packing vital things while I went to Mrs. Coker’s place to draw her attention to the situation.
“When I got to her floor, she answered me from inside saying, ‘God will see us through till tomorrow’. Nobody stayed on the second floor, so, I joined my other flat mates downstairs.
“To my utmost surprise as soon as we removed our vitals documents from our apartment and moved like three steps away, the building collapsed. It was God that saved us because the whole place went down.”- Ahmadu Omoniyi, a survivor of the collapse.
Before I start, please don’t call me wicked. I have to speak because I am angry with a whole lot of things: I am angry with landlords whose prior concern is how much they extort from tenants. I am angry with religious teachers who hinge so much on faith without adding that thou shall not put the Lord your God to test. I am angry with the mother of the deceased because she did put God to the test by refusing to heed the warning of her co-tenant.
I am a Christian. I am born again. Yet I seldom go to church because what I study in the scripture many times differ from what I hear from the pulpit.
These lives perhaps would have been saved had Mrs. Coker not leaned all on faith. Faith without action is dead that also is in the holy book. It wouldn’t have cost her anything to do what other tenants did – Run!
The did is done; a promising medical doctor and a graduates has paid the price of the negligence of the Lagos State Building Control Agency [LASBCA). It will l happen again. It is no prophecy of doom. It is the system... A little bribe is enough to make relevant authorities sway their heads the other side.
If any clergy gets to read this, know that I bear you no grudges, only that the scripture has to be balanced.
Things can only get better when we all start doing the right thing. Until then, I smell the claws of death.
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