Founder, Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet Temitope Joshua and his church will have their fate determined by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on March 3, 2015, over the prohibiting suit filed against a coroner’s inquest investigating circumstances behind the collapsed building within the church premises in September 2014, which killed over 115 worshippers.
Justice Lateefat Okunnu who has been presiding over the matter arrived at the date after the lead counsel of the Church and its founder, Chief Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), replied on point of law to the argument raised by lawyer to the Lagos State government before the court.
Registered Trustees of SCOAN had instituted the suit against the Lagos State Coroner Court sitting in Ikeja and the Chief Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe who is presiding over the Inquest.
SCOAN, alongside its founder, had filed the suit pursuant to Order 40 Rule 5 of the High Court of Lagos State (Civil Procedure Rules) 2012 and signed by one Mr. O.M Abimbola.
Among other things, the suit seeks “an order of Certiorari to quash the proceedings of the 1st and 2nd respondents in the conduct of the coroner’s inquest into the death of unknown persons in the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun Egbe, Lagos on 12th September,2014.
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