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Posted By richards on November 7, 2014

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Ikotun Egbe area of Lagos, CSP Haruna Alaba, has said the Nigeria Police is suspecting security sabotage as the cause of the September 12 Syangogue building collapse.

Giving testimony before the coroner, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe, on Thursday, Alaba said the peculiar manner in which the six-storey building collapsed has raised, among others, security concerns.

The police chief superintendent told the coroner that the State Criminal Investigations Department, Yaba, had already begun investigations, adding that one DSP Olusola Agoyi, was the officer assigned to the job.

He confirmed to the court that Agoyi had paid several visits to the collapsed site as part of his intelligent findings, adding that whenever he came he also reported at his (DPO) office in Ikotun.

Driving home his claim, Alaba recalled that before the collapse of the six-storey structure, his office had received reports of certain aircrafts flying at an unusually low altitude in the area and causing panic among the residents.

He stated further that with the security outfit put in place by the church, it was not impossible for a saboteur to have gained entrance to plant a bomb in the building.

The Nigeria Police has observed that there is need to investigate possible sabotage. The Nigeria Police has also observed the porous nature of the entrance and exit into the premises of the church as an issue that might have allowed possible sabotage with respect to the collapsed building, Alaba submitted.

The DPO went on to puncture the claim by the General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osayintolu, that the agency was impeded in carrying out rescue operation.

Flaying the NPF, Oke-Osanyintolu had said the mortality figure recorded would have been lesser, if the police had not failed in its duty of providing an enabling enviroment for lawful rescue operatives to work.

But Alaba stated that neither had Oke-Osanyitolu lodged any complaint of being assaulted nor did he hold any meeting with the police before his men were given access to the accident scene as he had claimed.

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Synagogue: Police suspect sabotage, says DPO

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