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President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday morning
paid a visit to the site of the collapsed six-storey building of the Synagogue
Church of All Nations in Ikotun, Lagos.
The President said the primary purpose of his
visit was to condole with the founder of the church, Temitope Joshua and the
families of the more than 80 people that lost their lives in the building that
collapsed penultimate Friday.
Jonathan, who said he would not comment on the
possible cause of the building collapse, disclosed that the Federal Government
had made an arrangement to have a meeting with governments at all levels on how
to forestall such an accident.
The President said, “I came to look at the site
and express my personal condolence and that of the Federal Government to the
church, to the founder of the church and especially to the bereaved families of
the people that have died. And as we (have) read in the papers, a number of
them are not Nigerians but from other countries, especially South Africa. I
spoke with the President of South Africa on Thursday to express my personal
condolence and that of the Federal Government.
“The issue of the cause of the collapse is not
what I can comment on since investigation is going on but we’ll work with
people to make sure we don’t experience such collapse again, if it is something
within the government’s capacity.
“I spoke with the governor of Lagos (Babatunde
Fashola) yesterday. We are going to have a meeting with all the governors and
local government chairmen to see how government can offer assistance in terms
of advisory issues to people who are building high-rise houses, so that if it
is technical issues, we will be able to manage them. But primarily, my coming
here is to express my condolence to Prophet Joshua, the Synagogue of All
Nations and the bereaved families.”
Meanwhile, Pretoria’s High Commissioner to
Nigeria, Lulu Mnguni, told the Agence-France Presse on Saturday that
the number of South Africans that died in the collapse is now 84.
Punch
1 comment:
Wait o... how come pastor T B Joshua did not foresee the building collapse to avert the death of over 85 people... hmmm...
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