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
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