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| T.B Joshua |
The Lagos State Government has
concluded plans to arraign Pastor TBJoshua and other trustees of Synagogue
Church of All Nations (SCOAN) on
Monday, November 30, 2015, 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.
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.
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.
Guardian
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