Synagogue: Coroner visits collapsed building site, threatens mass burial
The Coroner court put up by the Lagos State government to investigate the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Ikotun Lagos, yesterday visited the scene of the incident, requesting families of the victims to come for identification to avoid mass burial.
The Coroner Judge, who was corroborating a request made by the state Chief Medical Examiner, Prof. John Obafunwa for the manifest of the people in the building when it collapsed maintained that the government will be left with no option than to give the deceased mass burial if there was no proper identification.
The entourage which was received by the Chief Security Officer of the church, Mr Sunday Okojie, who conducted them around the scene of the incident also included Mr Akingbolahan Adeniran, Lagos State Counsel and representatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Red Cross Society and the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority.
The Coroner Judge, who was corroborating a request made by the state Chief Medical Examiner, Prof. John Obafunwa for the manifest of the people in the building when it collapsed maintained that the government will be left with no option than to give the deceased mass burial if there was no proper identification.
The entourage which was received by the Chief Security Officer of the church, Mr Sunday Okojie, who conducted them around the scene of the incident also included Mr Akingbolahan Adeniran, Lagos State Counsel and representatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Red Cross Society and the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority.
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I said at the inaugural sitting, we are not here on a witch-hunt or to convict anybody. We are here for a fact-finding purpose and how we can ascertain the cause of the incident,” he noted.
To this end, he directed the church to give the list of the people who lodged in the collapsed building to the Lagos State forensic team led by Obafunwa to assist in identification of the victims.
The COREN president explained that the council had placed advertisements calling on all engineering personnel related to the construction of the Synagogue Church building to report to it.
He urged the public not to hesitate to provide the council with information about the existence of building sites that did not conform with standard engineering procedures.
I said at the inaugural sitting, we are not here on a witch-hunt or to convict anybody. We are here for a fact-finding purpose and how we can ascertain the cause of the incident,” he noted.
To this end, he directed the church to give the list of the people who lodged in the collapsed building to the Lagos State forensic team led by Obafunwa to assist in identification of the victims.
The COREN president explained that the council had placed advertisements calling on all engineering personnel related to the construction of the Synagogue Church building to report to it.
He urged the public not to hesitate to provide the council with information about the existence of building sites that did not conform with standard engineering procedures.
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