The trustees of \u200eSynagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) will on Monday 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.<\/p>\n
Senior Pastor of the church, Prophet T.B Joshua is one of the trustees.
\nThe trustees will be arraigned before Justice Lawal Akapo alongside the engineers who constructed the collapsed building.
\nA statement by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Bola Akingbade, confirmed the scheduled arraignment.
\nIt 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.
\nThe 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\u2019 death.
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s service in Lagos.
\nThe inquiry sat for months and set July 8 for its ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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