A Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere heard on Friday that the
mode of collapse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN)
guest house was inconsistent with structural defect.
A professor of building and structural engineering, Patrick
Nwankwo, stated this in continuation of his evidence on the
collapsed guest house of the church before Justice Lateef
Lawal-Akapo.
Led in evidence by the defence counsel, Olalekan Ojo (SAN),
Professor Nwankwo said a building with structural defect would not
collapse like a pack of cards, but will collapse partially or sink
on one side.
”For a building with structural failure and defect, the mode of
collapse should be gradual. It cannot be catastrophic or
simultaneous because of the processes of hinges formation and the
occupants will sufficiently notice cracks and deflections to enable
them move out before it collapses. It is not possible for it to
collapse like a park of cards as seen in the case of Synagogue”,
Prof. Nwankwo insisted.
According to the international professor of building and
structural engineering, “the Synagogue guest house, with rigid
frame structures, which had been completed over a year, the whole
twelve frames could not have collapsed in the mode in which it
happened, it would have been partial and never catastrophic as it
seen”.
Nwankwo, who is the eighth defence witness in the ongoing trials
of the contractors and supervisors of the collapsed building which
claimed over a hundred lives on September 12, 2014, said he carried
out an independent and thorough investigation on the collapsed
guest house of the church in order to get to the root of the
cause.
Giving evidence further, Professor Nwankwo said he carried out
structural analysis using Orion Design Software modelling on the
beams, columns, foundation, anchorage, expansion joints, rigid
zones and mechanism vis-a-vis the internationally accepted Codes of
practice for engineering which is British Standard (BS) which all
professionals in the field of engineering use guiding principles to
arrive at his conclusions.
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