Posted By  richards on December 19, 2014    
				
				    The contractor, who built the collapsed Synagogues six-storey    building, Mr. Akin Fatiregun, has said he is sick and currently    receiving treatment at the Lagos State University Teaching    Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos State.  
    He therefore asked the coroner, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe, who    is investigating the circumstances surrounding the September 12    building collapse to allow him get well before coming to give    testimony as he had been requested to do.  
    Fatiregun, who was billed to appear before the coroner on    Friday, made the request at the proceedings through his legal    representative, Serah Edoha.  
    Edoha assured Komolafe that Fatireguns failure to appear in    court was not done in deliberate disobedience to the courts    order.  
    To support her claim, she tendered a medical report from    LASUTH.  
    But the admissibility of the report subsequently became a    subject of debate amongst the various counsel who appeared in    court.  
    Reacting to the development, counsel for the Lagos State    Government, Mr. Akingbolahan Adeniran questioned the    authenticity of the medical report.  
    Besides, Adeniran said the contractor ought to have sent a    member of his team to appear in court in view of time.  
    But the counsel for the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, Mr.    Olalekan Ojo argued that it was against the rule for a witness    to delegate another person to represent him in court.  
    Ojo, while urging the court to admit the medical report as the    evidence that Fatiregun was sick, maintained that LASUTH as a    hospital has unquestionable reputation.  
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