Synagogue: Lagos arraigns TB Joshua, others today
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. J
oshua 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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