ACP tells court : Aircraft flew over Synagogue’s building before it collapsed ~ Sportty

ACP tells court : Aircraft flew over Synagogue’s building before it collapsed

An assistant commissioner of police, Mr Alaba Haruna, on Friday, May 11, told a Lagos high court that an aircraft flew over Synagogue Church of All Nations building at Ikotun-Egbe, a Lagos suburb, just before it collapsed on September 12, 2014, killing 116 people. He said one of his patrol teams observed an aircraft flying low over the church and other buildings in the premises.

Haruna testified before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Igbosere high court on Lagos Island as a defence witness in the trial of the registered trustees of the church and four others.

The church opened its defence in a one-count charge of building without approval brought against it by the Lagos state Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) following the dismissal of its no-case submission on March 8, 2016.

The other defendants are the two engineers who built the building: Messrs Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, and their companies, Hardrock Construction and Engineering Company and Jandy Trust Ltd.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Haruna, area commander of the Eastern Ports Command, Port Harcourt, Rivers, was the divisional police officer at Ikotun-Egbe at the time the building collapsed.