Visitors from all parts of the Lagos metropolis continued to throng to the Iju-Ishaga, Lagos site of Sunday’s Dana plane crash.
Defying the intense smell of fumigation chemicals earlier used by a joint rescue team to disinfect the entire area, men, women, the old and the young arrived in batches to see what has become of the site.
A fair complexioned woman, her teenage daughter and some other family members had parked a black jeep and made for the site through Olaniyi Street to see the premises that had suddenly been reduced to a fallow land following the crash.
The beautifully dressed woman looked around in bewilderment, asking questions from residents, who offered answers to her ‘what and how questions.’
An elderly man, however, told our correspondent that the owner of the building into which the plane had crashed had only recently spent over N40m to build the two-storey structure and a pent house.
He said, “He took his time to build the place. It was an architectural masterpiece. The man was already doing some serious interior designs.
“The place had cost him about N40m. Even if one did not know the building before the crash, this beautiful fence says it all.
“It’s so painful because the man had promised to build a structure with compound for our Winners’ Chapel district fellowships.
“It’s so funny that a building that might have taken so long a time to build does not need one day to be demolition. It is just one impact from a bulldozer and it is down.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Daniel Omowunmi, the owner of the residential building, warehouse and jeep that were destroyed, was seen receiving visitors, especially from his church and answering calls from his phone at intervals.
Despite the demolition that had taken place there, Omowunmi had opted to remain there as if to retain his hold on the property he had always known as his residence.
On Popoola Street, scores of residents gathered to relive the memories of the crash.
Some, who claimed to be eyewitnesses of the accident, served as tour guides to people who had come to see the site and identify with the displaced residents.
But the young men almost engaged themselves in fisticuffs over whose account was more accurate.
“I learnt that a three-year-old child was rescued alive yesterday by the task force. I learnt it’s in the news too,” one said.
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