Dayo Fabiyi, a seventh witness in the ongoing trial of the trustees of SCOAN made the disclosure while being led in evidence by the fourth defendant Counsel, Mr Olalekan Ojo
They are facing trial on a 110-count charge of involuntary manslaughter while the registered trustees of SCOAN were charged with a count charge of erecting a building without approval. “There was no sign of deflections or any stress on the collapsed building before it collapsed,” he stated. He also noted that mechanical devices were only used to investigate deflections after the building had collapsed and not before.
But during cross-examination, the witness said: “as a civil engineer, apart from foundational failure, other factors can be responsible for the collapse of a building”. The witness said he had carried out work as a geotechnical expert only in support capacity and not as a chartered engineer.
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