By Abdulwahab Abdulah & Jane Echewedolagos—

Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo has fixed today  to rule on the admissibility or otherwise of the evidence contained in a Compact Disc (CD) video recording of the building collapse at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) building on September 2014.

At the resumed hearing of the case yesterday, the defence team had objected to the admissibility into evidence of a Compact Disc (CD) video recording of the building collapse which led to arguments between the parties.

The CD is purportedly containing a Close Circuit Television, CCTV, recording of an aircraft hovering above the building shortly before its collapse.

The two engineers who constructed the collapsed Synagogue guest house, their companies, Adrock construction company and Jandy Trust Ltd and the Trustees of the church are presently facing 101 criminal charges of manslaughter before the state High Court.

Shortly after the state represented by Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Mrs Idowu Alakija tendered the copy of the CD allegedly received from the general Overseer of the church, Pastor Temitope Joshua, it was objected to by the defence counsels.

While objecting, Mr Olalekan Ojo said: “The document is a copy of the original recording was given to the Lagos State Government by the General Overseer of SCOAN.”

“Being a copy, it is my general submission that for admissibility in evidence, the prosecution has a duty to have what is being sought to be tendered by them authenticated by the church being the maker of the evidence.

“I submit that the document is inadmissible in law because it is a secondary evidence of the original.”

However, in her response, Mrs Alakija, said the CD was admissible as evidence in law.

The matter continue today.