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Published 12 March 2021
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has adjourned till May 27, 2021 for the adoption of final written addresses in the case of a collapsed guesthouse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations.
The Lagos State Government had prosecuted the SCOAN over the collapsed building, which killed 116 worshipers of the church on September 12, 2014.
The defendants were two engineers, Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, charged alongside their companies Hardrock Construction and Engineering Company and Jandy Trust Ltd.
They were charged with 110 counts bordering on involuntary manslaughter, while the registered trustees of SCOAN were charged with one count of building without approval.