A real estate dealer and executive director of African Bureau for Legislative Empowerment, Wale Bob-Oseni, is said to be among victims trapped under the rubble of the collapsed 21-storey building at Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos state.
The Howard University graduate was said to have been on his way to the US on Monday, November 1, when he got a call from his friend, associate, and owner of Fourscore Homes, Femi Osibona, to check out the ongoing construction of the Gerald Terraces.
The building collapsed with Bob-Oseni and Osibona inside, and they are now feared dead after 48 hours of rescue efforts.
In a video that went viral after the collapse, a man believed to be Bob-Oseni’s driver was seen tearfully saying he was to take his boss to the Lagos airport.
“He was heading to America. I wanted to go and drop him in the airport,” the driver said in tears.
