Relief came the way of the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, on Monday as he has been permitted to stay away from the coroner’s sitting.
The coroner, Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, said the invitation earlier extended to Joshua has been suspended.
Komolafe said at the resumed hearing of the matter on Monday that the suspension of Joshua’s appearance is pending the determination of his suit before Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja.
Komolafe had issued witness summons on relevant individuals and institutions, including Joshua to enable them give evidence on the September 12 collapse of a six- storey guest house belonging to the church.
At least 115 persons, mostly of South Africans died in the incident.
The coroner had summoned the witnesses under the powers conferred on it by the Lagos State Coroner’s System Law No.7 of 2007.
But the founder of the Synagogue Church had filed an application before Justice Okunnu, seeking to stay proceedings of the inquest.
Joshua in the said application dated November 11, 2014, before the court and marked ID/188MJR/2014 had asked for a judicial review of the coroner’s proceedings, which began on October 13.
He urged the court to declare that his invitation to appear as a witness before the coroner was a breach of his rights to fair hearing, as no case had been established against his person before the coroner.
He further contested that the coroner had been extending his inquisitions into areas beyond its statutory purview.
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