Synagogue Building Collapse: ‘BCPG Could Have Carried Out A Better Investigation’

The Building Collapse
Prevention Guild says it could have carried out better investigation on the collapse of the guest house within the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) if its members had visited the scene earlier.
Mr Oreoluwa Fadayomi, a member of the Guild made this known recently while testifying before the coroner’s inquest investigating the cause of the collapse of the six-storey building.
Our correspondent reports that the inquest was set up by the Lagos State Government to investigate the September 12, 2014 building collapse, which killed 116 people, mainly South Africans.
The witness, under cross-examination by SCOAN’s counsel, Mr Olalekan Ojo, told the court that the Guild was a voluntary association of professional engineers.
According to him, the BCPG team visited the scene on March 5, about six months after the incident.
He said: “If I had visited the scene earlier than the time I did, I would have had a better material to carry out a better investigation into the incident.
“As at the time I got to the scene of the failed structure, the members of the collapsed building were already disjointed.”