The Lagos State Government, on sunday said it will prosecute all trustees of Synagogue Church Of All Nations(SCOAN), and the two engineers who built the church’s collapsed six-storey guest house that killed over 116 persons last year.
The Lagos State Ministry of Justice said in a statement on Sunday that the trustees and the engineers would be arraigned before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of a Lagos State High Court.
It noted that the founder of SCOAN, Prophet T.B. Joshua is one of the church’s trustees.
The SCOAN and the two structural engineers, Messrs Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, had on July 8, 2015 been
indicted by a Lagos State coroner, Mr. Oyetade Komolafe, who conducted an inquest into the death of the victims of the September 12, 2014 accident.
Komolafe had identified structural defect as the cause of the building collapse, as opposed to the church’s claim that the building was sabotaged.
The coroner had subsequently recommended that the engineers should be prosecuted for criminal negligence while the church should be investigated and prosecuted for building
without possessing necessary permit.
The state noted in its statement that the move to finally arraign the SCOAN trustees and the engineers followed the dismissal of a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by
the engineers before Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos.
Source: Punching.com
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