Students of Ondo state origin have threatened to
stage a peaceful protest over what they described
as a deliberate plan by the Lagos state government
to use the judiciary to indict the founder of the
Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Pastor
Temitope Joshua over the Church’s guest house
building which collapsed last September.
The students’ body, under the aegis of National
Association of Ondo State Students (NAOSS), who
claimed that it has carried out its own independent
findings, noted that the court case instituted by the
Lagos state government was a calculated attempt to
tarnish the image of Prophet T.B Joshua and
discredit his hard-earned reputation.
Addressing a press conference in Akure, the National
President of NAOSS, Awodola Afolayan, said the
union’s findings showed clearly that the building has
no structural defect and showed no sign of
weakness before it collapsed.
Afolayan pointed out that if the statement credited
to Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe during the first
sitting of the coroner that what happened in SCOAN
can happen anywhere in the world, there is no need
to unnecessarily prosecute the prophet.
He wondered why the Edo State Government has
failed to prosecute itself for the collapse of the Benin
Central Hospital that killed an Italian Engineer and
several others on the 4th of June, 2012.
Afolayan urged Lagos State Governor, Raji Fashola
to allow Magistrate Komolafe to do his work within
the shortest possible period without any interference
from any quarters.
He said the students would be forced to embark on
a mass protest if the coroner is not allowed to do its
job without being biased.“
We will like to emphasize that failure to meet our
demands within the next seven days will amount to
a ten- thousand man march on the premises of the
government secretariat.
“This march will be organized by the National
Association of Ondo State Students (NAOSS) in
conjunction with all those that have benefited from
then benevolent and philanthropic nature of Prophet
T.B. Joshua across the globe, irrespective of their
race or ethnic- religious affiliation,” he said.
