Synagogue church’s trustees, engineers arraigned for manslaughter
The Trustees of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) and two engineers were on Tuesday arraigned at the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja over the collapse building belonging to the church on September 12, 2014, which led to the death of 116 persons.


Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo allowed the arraignment of SCOAN Trustees, Hardrock Construction and Engineering Company, and Jadny Trust Limited as well as the two engineers who constructed the collapsed building, Messrs Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun after dismissing the application filed by the defendants seeking to quash the charge.


It will be recalled that the Lagos State Government had late last year, filed 111 count criminal charges against the Synagogue Trustees and the two engineers that supervised the construction of the collapsed building and their company before a Lagos State High Court
The defendants were arraigned for charges bordering on failure to obtain building approval contrary to Section 41 of the Urban and Regional Planning Law of Lagos State 2010, Involuntary Manslaughter causing death contrary to Section 222 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011 and other charges bordering on criminal negligence.

Since the State Government filed the charges, the defendants had deployed different means to stall their arraignment by filing several applications in order to stall or unnecessarily prolong the court case.



source: Lagos State Government official Facebook page.

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