Synagogue Church trustees, engineers to be arraigned on Monday over building collapse

The trial of the Trustees of the Synagogue Church of All Nations headed by Prof T.B Joshua and the building engineers who was supervising the collapsed building will commerce on Monday at the Lagos High Court in Ikeja and will be presided over by Justice Lawal Akapo.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the State Ministry of Justice, Mrs Bola Akingbade.

DAILY POST recalls that a Coroner, Magistrate, Oyetade Komolafe, had ruled that the Synagogue Church and its contractors’ negligence resulted in the collapse of a building in the church premises that claimed the lives of 116 people in September 12, 2014.

Komolafe ruled that the Synagogue Church be tried.

However, the Church Trustees had challenged the rulings of the Coroner at the Federal High Court but the court had on Monday, Nov. 11, 2015, struck out the application.

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