A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has remanded the two engineers in custody at the Kiri-Kiri Prisons over their alleged role in the death of over one hundred people in the collapsed seven-storey guest house owned by the Synagogue Church of All Nations.Justice LATEEF LAWAL-AKAPO ruled that OLADELE OGUNDEJI and AKINBELA FATIREGUN should be kept behind bars pending the determination of the charges against them.The order was granted after OGUNDEJI and FATIREGUN pleaded not guilty to one hundred and eleven counts of gross negligence and criminal manslaughter.The Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, IDOWU ALAKIJA, who is leading the prosecution, told the court that the defendants constructed a seven-storey building at the church in Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos with disregard for human lives.The case has been adjourned to 26th of April for hearing of the defendants’ bail applications.
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