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Posted By richards on December 13, 2014

A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has slated December 22, 2014 to hear the application for a judicial review of the coroners inquest into the September 12 Synagogue building collapse.

Justice Lateefat Okunnu, on Friday, announced the adjournment to allow the parties to regularise the positions.

The applicants are the Founder of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, Prophet T.B. Joshua, and the Registered Trustees of the church.

They had asked Justice Okunnu to determine whether the witness summons served on Joshua to appear before the coroner to give testimony was not a violation of his right.

They further contested that the coroner, Magistrate O.A. Komafe, had been extending his inquisitions into areas beyond his statutory power.

About 116 persons reportedly died in the collapsed six-storey guest house belonging to the SCOAN.

Komolafe had, on Wednesday, dismissed an application seeking a temporary suspension of the coroners inquest.

Meanwhile, at the resumed sitting of the coroner on Friday, a witness of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, Engr. Theophilus, continued with his testimony.

Theophilus told the coroner that the results of the tests conducted by the SON on the debris collected from the site of the collapsed building could not be entirely relied upon in determining the cause of the building collapse.

Theophilus, a civil engineer, made the submission while being cross-examined by the counsel for SCOAN, Mr. Olalekan Ojo.

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