A Structural Engineer, Oreoluwa Fadayomi, on Thursday told the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, that the Synagogue Church of all Nations guest house collapsed due to structural defects.
Fadayomi, who is the seventh prosecution witness, stated this during the trial of Synagogue Trustees and the two engineers involved in the construction of the collapsed guest house.
At least 118 persons, mostly South Africans died in the September 12, 2014 building collapse.
The Synagogue Trustees, the two engineers, Messrs Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun and their companies, Hardrock Construction and Engineering Company and Jandy Trust Limited, were arraigned before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo for their roles in the incident.
They were arraigned by Lagos State Government for criminal negligence, manslaughter and failure to obtain building permit.
The witness, a registered civil engineer, told the court that the building did not have rigid strong points at the two ends of the structure.
He added that the reinforcement was lower than what is expected of a robust structure like the church’s guest house.