The scheduled trial of Engineers Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, who built the collapsed Synagogue Church Of All Nations’ six-storey building has been further shifted to June 1, 2016.
Ogundeji and Fatiregun, alongside their companies, Hardrock Construction and Engineering Company and Jandy Trust Limited, are facing involuntary manslaughter charges over the death of 116 persons in the collapsed SCOAN’s building on September 12, 2014.
Also standing trial over the collapsed building are the Registered Trustees of SCOAN, who were charged with the offence of building without obtaining the approval of the state government.
The trial which was scheduled to commence on Monday before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja was however stalled as the four defence counsel raised an objection to the testimony of the first prosecution witness, Adebayo Olayinka
Soon after Olayinka stepped into the witness box on Monday, counsel for the first defendant, Chief Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), stood up and observed that the statement of the witness was not part of the proof of evidence made available by the prosecution to the defence.
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