The
trustees of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN)
will on Monday (November 30, 2015) be arraigned before a Lagos State High Court
in Ikeja over the collapse of a six-story building in the church on September
12, 2014, which led to the death of 116 persons.
Senior
Pastor of the church, Prophet T.B Joshua is one of the trustees.
The
trustees will be arraigned before Justice Lawal Akapo alongside the engineers
who constructed the collapsed building.
A
statement by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of the Lagos State Ministry of
Justice, Bola Akingbade, confirmed the scheduled arraignment.
It
would be recalled that Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos
had dismissed the fundamental human rights enforcement suits filed by the
engineers who constructed the collapsed six-storey building to stop their
planned trial.
The
engineers, Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, had filed two separate
suits before Justice Buba seeking an order restraining the police from
inviting, arresting or prosecuting them over the victims’ death.
The
Lagos State Government had set up a Coroner Inquest to unravel what went wrong,
and in a verdict delivered on August 7, 2015, Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, the
Coroner, indicted the engineers and recommended them for investigation and
prosecution for criminal negligence.
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The
church building, a guest house, collapsed in September 2014, killing 116
people, many of them South Africans who travelled to Nigeria for the church’s
service in Lagos.
The inquiry sat for months and set July 8 for its ruling.
The inquiry sat for months and set July 8 for its ruling.
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