A town planner, Mr. Bisi Adedire, has opposed the submission by Lagos State that the collapsed six-storey building of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations had no government approval.

Adedire appeared as a witness in the ongoing coroner’s inquest into the death of the 116 persons killed in the unfortunate incident of September 12.

He insisted that the SCOAN paid over N20m to Lagos State Government to secure an approval for the collapsed building.

Adedire said the building also had a plan. He tendered the said building plan and same was admitted in evidence by the court.

“An approval can be secured even for a building that is already in existence,” he insisted.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Oluwatoyin Ayinde had told the coroner that his ministry had no record of the approval for the collapsed building.

Also testifying on Thursday, the Deputy General Manager, Air Traffic Control of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Mr. Rafiq Arogunjo restated that the suspicious aircraft that hovered in the Ikotun area on that day did not fly below 1,100 feet.

Fielding questions under cross-examination, Arogunjo submitted as follows: “We observed that the pilot maintained 1,100 feet at all material times during the training operation.

“There is no way I would have known the intention of the pilot on the day of the incident. I can also confirm that the flight plan was submitted to me, but I cannot remember the name of the pilot that flew the aircraft on the day of the incident.

“I don’t also know what the aircraft was carrying that day, and the identity of those in the aircraft is not known to me. I have no knowledge of the gadgets on board the flight and I don’t know the use with which the flight was deployed on the day under review.

“The control tower would not be able to know what the pilot was doing with the aircraft whenever the said aircraft goes off the visibility of the radar.

“We also carried out a scientific analysis on the distance between the collapsed guest house and the aircraft. There was never a time the aircraft flew over the collapsed building.

“But nobody signed the scientific analysis carried out on the distance between the building and the aircraft. “I don’t believe in the CCTV footage before the court and I cannot give answers based on the footage. “There is nothing in my deposition before the court that shows the horizontal distance between the aircraft and the collapsed guest house.

“The aircraft is designed for military operations to the best of my knowledge. But I don’t know if the intention of the aircraft was to hit any target. “The aircraft evidently flew near the building that collapsed at 1,100 fit. I have heard about an aircraft on a sabotage mission release invisible substance on a target lased with explosive device with the aim of bombing a target.

“I cannot confirm if the aircraft had such a substance and we did not lose sight on radar of the aircraft on the day of the incident.”

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“We also carried out a scientific analysis on the distance between the collapsed guest house and the aircraft. There was never a time the aircraft flew over the collapsed building.

“But nobody signed the scientific analysis carried out on the distance between the building and the aircraft.

hahahahaha, who suppose to signed the so called scientific analysis that is afraid to sign, God will continue to expose those that are against His church, the battle is not over yet, we are waiting.