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.
Source: Punch