Obascoetubi:
Activities at the High Court,
Ikeja were yesterday halted
for minutes by the National
Association of Nigerian
Students, NANS when they
protested over the ongoing
coroner inquest into last
year’s collapsed building at
the Synagogue Church of All
Nations, SCOAN which killed
over 100 persons.
This came four months after
the Coroner Inquest set-up by
the State governor,
Babatunde Fashola to
investigate the cause of the
collapsed building.
The students, who were
armed with placards, stormed
the Ikeja High Court chanting
several anti-government
songs to buttress their
demands.
They argued that the Coroner
Inquest was an aberration to
a national disaster, saying
“building collapse is not a
purported act; rather a
natural disaster.”
President of NANS, Ondo
State, Simon Awodola argued
that setting up an inquest
into a natural disaster was to
victimize the church and the
owner, Prophet Temitope
Joshua.
According to him, “Even
setting up coroner inquest is
not acceptable to us. We
believe that there are
corruption, abduction and
other cases that should have
been looked into. But they
were swept under the carpet.
“This is a natural disaster.
Imagine when an earthquake
happens in Alausa who will
Lagos State Government sue
for it. The Lagos State
Government should abolish
the inquest and focus on
other developmental issues.
“We are appealing to the
Federal and state-Ondo and
Lagos-governments to look
into the issue critically and
look into the claim of the
church especially as it
concerns the plane that hover
on the structure before it
collapsed,” he added.
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