A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Morning morning, adjourned to December 11 the trial of Senior Pastor of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet TB Joshua, and other trustees of the church over the collapse of a six-story building within the church premises in Ikotun area of the state, on September 12, 2014, killing 116 persons, mostly South Africans.
TB Joshua, who denies responsibility for the disaster, did not, however, appear in court.
The SCOAN trustees are being tried before Justice Lawal Akapo alongside the structural engineers responsible for building.
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-story 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.
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