Police to probe collapsed building
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Following the collapsed six-storey building within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), and the alleged hovering of an aeroplane over the building before its collapse, Lagos State Police authorities are to commence investigation into the incident.
Prophet Temitope Joshua, Pastor at the Church, had linked the building collapse to a hovering plane, claiming that it was responsible for the collapse of the building, and that he was the target of what collapsed the building.
The police said they would, in the course of the investigation, comprehensively interrogate Prophet Joshua to clarify and expatiate on the claims of a low-flying aeroplane that hovered around the building before it collapsed. The Police also said they would want to know the structural condition of the building before it was raised from a two-storey building to six-storey.
The police team is led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of one of the Area Commands in the state, and Police authorities said they had already swung into action.
In a related development, Lagos State Government has given notice of commencement of forensic identification and DNA analysis of the the bodies recovered from the site of the collapsed building at the SCOAN. In a statement issued on Friday, September 26, to newsmen in Lagos by the state Commissioner of Health, Dr Jide Idris, the State Government said considered it necessary to start forensic identification and DNA analysis of the recovered bodies in view of the need to identify each of them. He called for DNA samples from relatives.
He said those eligible to give samples for the forensic identification and DNA analysis in order of preference were the parents, children and siblings of the deceased.
He therefore called on Family members and all nationals who believed their relations could have been in the collapsed building to come forward and submit samples that could aid forensic identification and DNA analysis of the recovered bodies and to visit the Department of Forensic Medicine, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
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