The hearing on the suit against Synagogue
Pastor, T.B Joshua and his engineers over the
September 2014 church building collapse has
been adjourned to December 11th by Justice
Lawal Akapo of the Lagos State High Court. The
resumed hearing of the case was meant to take
place this morning but T.B. Joshua and his
engineers, Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela
Fatiregun failed to appear in court.
Counsel to the Engineers, Oluwaseun Abimbola,
told the court that they were absent because they
were not served with court papers. Reacting to
this position, the Lagos State's Attorney General,
Adeniji Kazeem said no valid physical addresses
were found for the contractors, which he said
was reason that the Ministry of Justice could not
locate or serve the court papers.
The presiding judge ordered that proper court
notices be served to the engineers within 72
hours, and advised their counsel to inform them
to take the court proceedings seriously as their
trial is of a criminal case. 117 people, mostly
Nigerians and South Africans, died in the Church
building collapse.
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