Gov Fashola Arranges With SA Government Officials To Convey Corpses Of Dead Victims At Synagogue Church Building Collapse

Gov Fashola with Jeffrey Radebe, and some other govt officials from SA

Governor Fashola of Lagos in a meeting yesterday with some governmental officials of South Africa, reached a concrete agreement to convey the corpses of those South Africans that died in the Synagogue Church of All Nation's building collapse that occurred on September, 12th, 2014. It was reported that about 54 persons from the Republic of SA were among the dead victims in that tragedy.

In that meeting, that constituted delegates from the Presidency of South African Ministry, such as Mr Jeffrey Radebe, Governor Fashola stated that from the DNA test carried on the 70 bodies that were taken from the 116 bodies found in the scene of the incident, that it was 54 bodies that were confirmed as being of South African descent.


He therefore apologized to the South Africa's officials for they delay displayed in releasing the dead bodies to them, and stated that it was to ensure that there was no mistakes in  giving the right bodies to the families that were affected by this ugly incident.

So the Chief Medical Examiner 'Prof John Obafunwa' while briefing the delegation stated that among the 116 dead victims, 70 persons have been tested and identified and, it was 54 of the 70 that were confirmed to be South Africans, while the remaining were of Nigeria, Togo and Benin Republic descent.

It was a tragic situation, my condolences to the affected families.