SCOAN: Lagos Marks Two Buildings For Integrity Test As
Rescue Operation Ends
The Lagos State Government yesterday marked two building within the Synagogue Church of All Nations premises in Ikotun-Egbe, for structural integrity test.
The government declared after last
Friday’s building collapse that the church did not obtain permission to raise
additional structures within its premises.
It, however, added that
investigations were on going.
Marked for integrity tests are one
of the church’s guest houses, directly opposite the collapsed building.
The church also yesterday released a
video of purported South African survivors of the mishap, who recounted their
ordeal.
The survivors, Shadrack Mamzini;
Thobile Bhaku; Mick Milambo and Charles Thawane from the video, attributed the
unfortunate incident to the unidentified aircraft that flew over the collapsed
building.
In the video recording made
availbale by the church, all four purported survivors maintained their
unalloyed loyalty to the church and Prophet T.B Joshua.
Meanwhile, search and rescue
operations ended yesterday at the site of the collapsed building with emergency
rescue agencies giving the total figure of victims removed from the building as
211 – comprising 80 dead and 131 survivors.
General Manager, Lagos State
Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Dr. Femi Oke-Osayintolu, said the next
phase was fumigation of the area to avoid outbreak of disease.
He said the government had commenced
autopsy and DNA test on the recovered bodies.
“We have been working since the
incident aggressively and round the clock. With our strategy, we were able to
rescue 131 from the collapsed building and they are responding to treatment in
the hospitals.
“With combined efforts from all
stakeholders, we were able to retrieve 80 bodies.
“You can see that we have reached
ground zero and there is nobody under here again. I can assure you that there
is no one trapped here anymore. The phase of emergency we handled here is the
rescue and recovery phase”.
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