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.
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