‘Rising!’ Death toll at Ikoyi building collapse now stands at 22

The corps members, who were claimed to be serving at Fourscore Heights Limited, were stuck with the company’s owner and developer, Mr Femi Osibona.

A food seller who was also a eye witness revealed that one of the corps members was lucky having gone to buy food from her.

“Everyone else in the corps was stranded. I’m not sure how many there are, but there are more than two,” she replied.

According to a NYSC source, six corps members were serving at the firm, but only one of them, Zainab Sanni Oyindamola of the 2021 Batch B, perished.

Zainab was claimed to have been posted to Maiduguri but was then redeployed to Lagos following a three-week orientation.

On Wednesday, her friends and coworkers paid tribute to her on Facebook.

According to one of her cousins, she returned to work at the firm around three weeks ago.

She said: “She has been coming here since then. We don’t even know why they sent her here.

“She was initially posted to Borno, but her mother insisted that she asked to be redeployed.

“If we had known, we’d have allowed her to continue her youth service in that state. She is the first daughter of her mother and they are just two.”

This is just as more victims’ relatives thronged the scene, crying.

Another victim was Mr Wale Bob-Oseni, a friend of the developer, who was scheduled to travel to America the day the incident happened.

It was learnt that the developer invited him from the airport to come and see the project before returning to the US only to be trapped when the incident happened.