LAGOS TO BEGIN PROBE OF SYNAGOGUE BUILDING COLLAPSE OCT.13

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.
Source: Punch