Lagos to begin probe of Synagogue building collapse on Oct. 13th
The Lagos State Government announced on Friday Oct. 3rd that the
coroner it inaugurated to probe the circumstances surrounding the
6-storey Synagogue building which collapsed on September 12th and
claimed more than 115 lives will commence sitting on October 13th.
According to Punch, the Lagos State Ministry of Justice said in a statement that the coroner’s
hearing will take place at the Coroner Court on the premises of the
Ikeja Lagos State High Court.
The coroner is to be headed by Magistrate
O.A. Komolafe, and the witness list are: The
Lagos State Building Control Agency, the Lagos State Ministry of
Physical Planning and Urban Development, the Lagos State Ministry of
Works, the Surveyor-General of the state, the SCOAN building
contractors, the Standard Organisation of Nigeria and the Lagos State
Ministry of Tourism.
Also to testify are the National
Emergency Management Agency, the Lagos State Emergency Management
Agency, the Nigerian Red Cross Society, the Lagos State Fire Service and
the Lagos State Transport Management Authority.
Others are the Nigerian Police Force, the
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Chief Medical Director
of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, the Chief Medical
Examiner of the state and officials of the Emergency Centre of the
Igando General Hospital, Lagos State.
Various print and electronic media houses such as The PUNCH, The Nation, Daily Independent, The Vanguard, P.M. News, the News Agency of Nigeria, Channels Television and Television Continental are also expected to testify before the coroner of inquest.
The General Overseer and founder of
SCOAN, Pastor T. B. Joshua, families of the victims, an eyewitness,
Lindiw Ndwande and the chairman of the Youth League’s International
Relation Committee of South Africa, Mr. Rebone Tau, have also been
listed as witnesses.
