The National Congress of Akoko Students, NACAS, in Ondo State has threatened to stage a protest against the Lagos State government should it refuse to end the ongoing trial of the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet Temitope Joshua, over the collapse of a refurbished six-storey building inside his church premises in 2014.
The collapse of the building killed 116 people, mostly South Africans.
In a statement issued and signed by its National President, Comrade Oluwaseyi Aminu, NACAS described the trial as an attempt by the government to dent the image of the cleric.
The students warned that they are already mobilizing over 200,000 of their members across the nation to stage a protest against the Lagos government if it insists on going ahead with the court case.
The group, while praising the founder of the Synagogue Church for what it described as immense contribution to the society particularly to Akoko communities, said they would never fold their arms and allow the man of God to be punished for an incident that was not deliberately caused by him.
The student body stressed that T.B Joshua is their benefactor and had been assisting their educational development through issuance of scholarship to students from Akokoland.
It noted that the pastor has also contributed to the security sector of the state by donating Hilux vans to the police during the period when banks in Ikare were raided and many residents of the community were killed by robbers.
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