The
two engineers, Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun, alleged to be culpable
in the construction of the collapsed guest house of the Synagogue Church of All
Nations, SCOAN, were yesterday sent back to Kirikiri prisons as the court fixed
date to rule on their bail applications.
Justice
Lateef Lawal-Akapo reserved ruling till May 3, 2016, after taking
arguments for the bail from the counsel to the defendants. The collapsed
building claimed over 120 lives many of them foreigners after the church guest
house collapsed September last year. The engineers were last week sent to
detention after they were arraigned for offenses ranging from manslaughter and
negligence, while the court fixed yesterday for the argument of their bail
applications. Their hope of regaining freedom yesterday was however dashed as
the court adjourned ruling. In her application dated April 19, 2016 brought
pursuant to Section 115 of Section 2 of the Administration of Criminal Justice
Law, counsel to Fatiregun, Titi Akinlawon (SAN) argued that the ”offenses
committed by the defendant were bailable offenses. He has been charged before
for the same offenses at the magistrate court and did not jump bail. So, if
granted bail now, he will also not jump bail,” she argued. However, opposing
the bail application, the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Idowu Alakija,
urged the court not to grant the defendants bail
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