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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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Synagogue:I am sick, contrator tells coroner

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