Nigeria silent on fatal church building collapse probe
25 Sept 2014 4:21 AM IST
Nigerian officials were tight-lipped on Tuesday about the scope of a probe into a fatal church building collapse in Lagos that killed 115, as anger mounted against the popular preacher in charge.
The Lagos state governor’s spokesman, Hakeem Bello, said the government in Abuja had convened a committee of state and federal agencies to investigate the 12 September collapse.
But he offered no further details about the investigation and cancelled a scheduled news conference to provide updates on the incident at TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
‘The best thing for us is to put things on hold now. Before the investigation is out, it would not be right to say this is this, this is that,’ added Lagos state information commissioner Lateef Ibirogba. A total of 84 South Africans were killed when a guesthouse housing foreign followers of the popular preacher and televangelist came down on the SCOAN complex in the Ikotun area of the city. Rescue workers said the addition of extra floors to the three-storey building without reinforcing its foundations was likely to have caused the collapse.
The Lagos state governor’s spokesman, Hakeem Bello, said the government in Abuja had convened a committee of state and federal agencies to investigate the 12 September collapse.
But he offered no further details about the investigation and cancelled a scheduled news conference to provide updates on the incident at TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
‘The best thing for us is to put things on hold now. Before the investigation is out, it would not be right to say this is this, this is that,’ added Lagos state information commissioner Lateef Ibirogba. A total of 84 South Africans were killed when a guesthouse housing foreign followers of the popular preacher and televangelist came down on the SCOAN complex in the Ikotun area of the city. Rescue workers said the addition of extra floors to the three-storey building without reinforcing its foundations was likely to have caused the collapse.
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