The founder and general overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) Prophet TB Joshua will appear in court on Monday over the collapse of a six-storey building in his church at Ikotun, Lagos state Western Nigeria.
The building killed over 115 people, 86 of them South Africans. Scores of others were also rescued.
Following the incident, the Lagos State government set up a judicial panel to look into the cause of the collapse.
The panel is scheduled to start sitting on Monday 13 October at the Lagos State High court at Ikeja, Lagos.
Our correspondent gathered that all the parties involved have been summoned to appear before the panel when it begins sitting.
TB Joshua: To appear before a court
It will be recalled the building collapse caused a controversy following claims and counter-claims as to the cause.
The Lagos state government has partly hinged the collapse on building agents who did not get approval to erect the structure, adding that, it was due to structural deficit as the building was originally a two-storey building.
Joshua had made several claims that the building was demolished with explosives. He also blamed an aircraft that hovered over the building four times as a possible cause for the collapse.
His church also stated that the collapsed building was approved for 12-storey and as such, the structure was strong enough.
It was on the strength of the controversy that the state government set up a panel to actually find out the cause of the collapse.
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