Five persons narrowly escaped death at the National Assembly as one of the elevators developed fault and trapped the occupants for about an hour.
The incident took place at the House of Representatives wing (old section) of the legislative complex. Scores of people helplessly gathered around the faulty elevator praying and shouting.
Technicians who were deployed to handle the situation resorted to manually lowering the elevator to the ground floor before forcibly opening its doors to free the occupants.
Some people at the scene disclosed that a similar fate befell many in recent times.
Before the rescue, the trapped occupants were seen gasping for breath through a...
small opening which was previously created by persons at the scene.
For the past three years, the National Assembly budget allocation has been in the region of N150 billion.
The rescued victims (all staff of the National Assembly) were identified as Femi (House Committee on Capital market), Irene (House Committee on Diaspora), Fatai, Aduragba and Muhammed.
“Since lawmakers stopped using these elevators, all forms of maintenance stopped. This is not fair. Are staff of the National Assembly not human beings?” one of the onlookers at the scene was heard lamenting.
The faulty elevator leads to office suites formerly allocated to House members. It is presently occupied by management staff of the National Assembly. The old section was built in 1998 by construction giants, Arab Contractors.
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