Lagos Gov, Babatunde Fashola Orders TB Joshua’s Men From Site Of Collapsed 6 Storey Synagogue Building, As Official Investigation Begins

+death toll hits 48, 135 rescued

Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola has ordered all workers of Prophet T.B Joshua and his Synagogue ministry from the site of the church’s collapsed 6 storey building.

The Prophet T.B Joshua’s faithful are accused of hampering rescue work – in the midst of limiting access of rescue workers and others deem not their fold at the site.

The attitude of Prophet Joshua’s made had resulted in open brawl and physical combat with some of the ‘visitors – and even media men.

But the Lagos Governor turned up at the site of the much reported collapse on Sunday September 14 2014 and ordered them from site.

His media handlers detailed what transpired as reproduced below

‘Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Sunday visited the site of the collapsed building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun Egbe, expressing sadness at the loss of life even as he described the incident as very unfortunate.

While commiserating with the General Overseer of the Church, Prophet Temitope Joshua, who came to meet him at the site of the collapsed structure, Governor Fashola, however, directed that the staff of the Church should give way for the rescue workers to be able to carry out the job of evacuating the debris and rescuing possible victims still trapped under the collapsed building.
Synagogue\’s Victims… The Governor, who was received at the site by the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Town Planner Olutoyin Ayinde, told Prophet Joshua, “What you need to understand now is that this place is now an accident scene and so all your staff must leave this place. We need to take control of this place and let people who are trained to do this job to do so”.
“We understand that this is an unfortunate
incident, we understand their sense of sympathy and compassion. But let them allow those who are trained to do the job take over and do the job; that is their training and it won’t make sense if they are getting in each other’s way”, he said.
Governor Fashola said after the emergency workers have finished their work, it would be easier for any staff of the Church, whether an engineer or a medical personnel, whom the General Overseer wishes to be on the site with the emergency workers for the purpose of taking records, to join them.

Urging the General Overseer to ask all his staff to step down from the accident site until rescue work is finished, Governor Fashola added, “When we finish, if you have any person, whether an engineer or a medical person you wants to be on the site with them, working with them to know what they are taking there, then it is easier; they can report to you and then report to me. But we can’t continue rescue operations with your men hanging around here”.
Also at the site to receive the Governor were the Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Wale Ahmed and the General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency, (LABSCA), Mrs. Kafayat Animashaun-Odunayo among other top government officials.’

Findings by societynowng.com revealed the visit as without prior notice to Prophet T.B Joshua. Synagogue

And according to government sources ‘it signals proper begining of official investigations into what went wrong’

‘The aim of the telling off, of Prophet Joshua’s men is, so that they stop shielding or tampering with evidence(s) that will help grasp a proper handling of what truly happened.

The Governor told the General Overseer to recommend his observers so that there will be transparency in discoveries, disclosures and interpretations

‘Especially because this is a high profile case’

Further disclosures on situations of victims of the collapse site indicate the death toll has reached 48.

And three excavators dedicated to the site as rescue operation continues.