The case against Prophet TB Joshua over his collapsed building that resulted into the death of 116 people has taken another shape.
A coroner, Oyetade Komolafe had threatened popular him with arrest if he failed to testify at an inquest.
"The court has the power to summon whoever it deems necessary to assist it," Komlafe told the hearing in the city.
"The counsel should advise The Prophet to come. The church is not on trial. It's not a matter of ego. Nobody is above the law. The court will be fair to all.
"If he is an institution with immunity, the court will not even go there. If the man refuses to come, he can be arrested... He has to appear. We summoned The Prophet. We summoned the contractors."
The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Oluwatoyin Ayinde, has said :
“The approval that we saw was in the name of the Synagogue Church of All Nations dated January 26, 2004 but that approval was just for the main auditorium and one of the things we discovered was that it was an approval for a five-floor development.
“ But on our visit to the site, we discovered that the building had been taken to eight floors; we do not have the records of the additional floors, making those floors illegal construction.
“Did we see anything on the collapsed building? No. In our records the collapsed building has no approval.”
He added, “I’d like to say that with the additional structure we saw on site, we are inclined to express some fears.
“ We have seen, for example, that one of the columns is not taking off from the ground floor, but it is resting on an existing water tank and I don’t know whether any engineer certified that construction. This needs to be investigated because it is an unusual practice to start a column middle way.” Get this Offer Now before it closes
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