The trustees of Synagogue Church of
All Nations, SCOAN, will today be arraigned
before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja over the collapse of a six-storey 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 that
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.
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— Mr. Oladele Ogundeji and Mr.
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 via a verdict delivered on August 7, 2015 by
Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, the Coroner had
indicted the engineers and recommended them
for investigation and prosecution for criminal
negligence.
The engineers had filed the suits following the
Coroner’s verdict, which attributed the building
collapse to structural defect.
The engineers had specifically rejected the
Coroner’s verdict, describing it as
“unreasonable, one-sided and biased.”
But Justice Buba, in his ruling on the
defendants’ preliminary objection, held that the
engineers “had not made out a case of
infringement on their fundamental rights even
on the merit of the application,” and dismissed
their applications.
before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja over the collapse of a six-storey 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 that
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.
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— Mr. Oladele Ogundeji and Mr.
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 via a verdict delivered on August 7, 2015 by
Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, the Coroner had
indicted the engineers and recommended them
for investigation and prosecution for criminal
negligence.
The engineers had filed the suits following the
Coroner’s verdict, which attributed the building
collapse to structural defect.
The engineers had specifically rejected the
Coroner’s verdict, describing it as
“unreasonable, one-sided and biased.”
But Justice Buba, in his ruling on the
defendants’ preliminary objection, held that the
engineers “had not made out a case of
infringement on their fundamental rights even
on the merit of the application,” and dismissed
their applications.
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