Court fines T.B Joshua N25,000 for “deliberately stalling hearing”

Founder and general overseer of Synagogue Church Of All Nations,Prophet T.B Joshua, has been slammed with a N25,000 fine by a Lagos High Court for “deliberately stalling hearing” in a suit he filed against a Lagos coroner, Magistrate O.A Komolafe.

Komolafe is the coroner probing the September 12, 2014 building collapse in the premises of SCOAN in Ikotun, Lagos which led to the death of 116 persons, mostly South Africans.

Justice Lateefa Okunnu, while awarding the cost against Joshua on Tuesday, berated the prophet for “wasting the time of the court and tax payers’ money.”

The judge expressed displeasure that the matter, which was filed in December last year, had been bogged down in several adjournments at the instance of Joshua.