Barely two weeks after the collapse of the guest
house at Synagogue Church of All Nations in
Lagos, a fresh indication emerged yesterday that
the church was given an approval for a 12-
storey building by the Lagos State government.
Speaking during an interview on Channels
Television, yesterday, Mr. Ken Emeakayi, an aide
to Prophet T.B Joshua, refuted reports that the
building had no approval.
He said: “It is not true and I stand to be
corrected. I want to also point out that
whosoever said that was not saying the correct
thing, because I also listened to a commissioner
of Lagos State, when he came to your studio. He
said that when he got there, he discovered that
there was no approval for the building, meaning
that he has not been there before and there was
nothing of such. Yes, the church had approval.”
Asked if the church had shown the approval to
the Lagos State Government authorities, he said:
“Yes, ofcourse. Officials of Lagos State
Government have been there severally. They
have even come to look at other buildings in the
church premises. So, there is no additional
sturcture to the building. We are talking of a
building that is on its own. We have the
pictures. It’s a new structure.
“The building is still under construction, but it is
not as if it is an attachment to the church
auditorium. It is a building standing on its own
and in a different compound. It is a guest house.
It is a building that has its own design and
approval. This particular structure in question,
has an approval for 12-storey building and they
have even come to examine the foundation and
its casting after this incident. They have
therefore seen that it was done with the
specification of a 12-storey building.”
When contacted, Lagos State Commissioner for
Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr.
Toyin Ayinde, declined comment on the matter
saying, “there will be no further comment on the
collapsed Synagogue building until investigations
into the matter are concluded and the report
made public.”
Lagos is conducting thorough investigation—
Fashola
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State,
yesterday, declared that the state government is
conducting thorough investigation to unravel the
facts surrounding the collapse of a six-storey
building owned by the Synagogue Church of All
Nations, SCOAN, saying, “we are acting
methodically on the issue.”
This came two weeks after the six-storey guest
house owned by SCOANs killed over 100 persons
and 131 others rescued.
Fashola, who stated this during a courtesy visit
by the executive members of the Nigerian
Institute of Town Planners, NITP, led by its
President, Mr. Steve Onu, at the State House,
Alausa, Ikeja, warned residents to refrain from
making false statements on the collapsed
building.
The governor, while reacting to complaints from
residents, demanding immediate action said:
”People must understand that when accidents
like this happen, there are many issues involved.
Perhaps, we have got used to what was amounts
to an inappropriate conduct on arrival at an
accident scene and make pronouncements on
what happened before the investigations are
concluded.
“Residents must desist from this act and wait
for professionals to make pronouncements. I
think we should just allow that process to go
on. I think the investigation will be held if we
refrain from any further comment about this
incident. So, some of the people we took away
from the accident scenes, who are in coma and
who are in shock, people count them as dead
people.
“This kind of behaviour must stop. Unless there
is anybody keeping dead bodies in his house and
private hospital, we are the regulators and all
those bodies come to our mortuaries. So, we
must account for them.” he warned.


source: www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/synagogue-approval-build-12-floors-joshuas-aide/

This should have been made public since.

Better put; "we had approval to kill more people"..

kokoA: Better put; "we had approval to kill more people"..

lmao

...case about to be buried just like the others. from time to time, questions would be asked...like "who killed Dele Giwa?"

I believe its been more than two weeks since this incidence happened and the Lagos state govt made the comment of approval, how come it took this long before they made a counter claim about it? I know SCOAN to be quick to responses but in the case of bribery and approval, it took them long. Anyway, I hope there hasn't been any closed door meeting cos it will be very disastrous for this country. Let's see the result of the state govt's investigation. I heard Fashola is the last hope of good governance in Nigeria, he never does anything wrong, hope something meaningful is done. Someone needs to go to jail for this since some people believe that except someone goes to jail, corruption is not being fought.

brainpower: I heard Fashola is the last hope of good governance in Nigeria, he never does anything wrong.

The most edyyotic statement of the century.

Adelaide2:

The most edyyotic statement of the century.

Thank you. Hope you are feeling better about youself now?