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.