Two structural engineers indicted in the six-storey Synagogue Church of All Nations’ building collapse have asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to quash the coroner’s verdict which found them culpable.
The engineers – Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, filed two suits numbered FHC/L/CS/1095/15 and FHC/L/CS/1096/15 against the Lagos Commissioner of Police, the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), the state Attorney-General and the coroner, Mr. Oyetade Komolafe.
They are challenging the July 8 verdict of an inquest into the death of 116 persons in the September 2014 building collapse in the church.
The coroner court indicted Ogundeji and Fatiregun of criminal negligence and recommended them for criminal prosecution.
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, had indicated that the government would implement the coroner’s verdict, including filing of criminal charges against the church.
Ogundeji and Fatiregun’s lawyer, Mr. Olalekan Ojo, told Justice Mohammed Idris on Wednesday that he filed ex-parte applications seeking to restrain the police from inviting or arresting them for questioning with a view to prosecuting them.
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