The Homicide Department of the State Criminal Investigation
Department, Panti, Lagos, has submitted that the
Synagogue six-storey building could have been felled by a
techique termed controlled demolition. According to the
SCID, controlled demolition is when a building is felled using
chemical or electronic device.The position of the SCID was
given by the Head, Homicide Investigation and Crime Scene
Management at Panti, DSP Olusola Agoyi.
Agoyi testified on Wednesday at the resumed sitting of the
coroner, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe, probing the cause of the
September 12 tragedy.The accident claimed no fewer than
116 lives.Agoyi, in his testimony, said the speed and the rate
at which the Synagogue building caved in, coupled with
some dust-like smoke that followed were peculiar elements
seen only in a building felled by controlled demolition.
He said, “My Lord, when you use chemical or electronic
device to bring down a building, it is controlled demolition.“I
found out from the CCTV that the rate and the speed of the
fall of the building within seconds was just like that of a
controlled demolition.
“Aside that, the CCTV 3 captured some dust-like smoke
coming out of the collapsed building.”Further lending weight
to his claim, Agoyi referred the coroner to the oral account
of one of the 34 survivors that he said were interviewed in
the course of his intelligent findings.“
The panel also interviewed one Taiwo Temitayo Taiwo, aged
28 years, one of the surviving victims of the collapsed
building and I quote, ‘Immediately the building was coming
down, what I saw or heard was like a thunderous lightning
accompanied with a sound, hitting the wall as if someone
was using a saw to cut an iron, then the house collapsed,'”
Agoyi submitted.
SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/news/synagogue-
building-felled-by-controlled-demolition-police/
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