CONTRACTORS indicted in the collapse of the six-storey building belonging to The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Oladele Ogundele and Akinbola Fatiregun, have challenged the legality of the court processes effected on them by the Lagos State government.

When the matter was called yesterday, counsel to the engineers, E. L. Akpofure (SAN) and Mrs. Akinlawon (SAN), filed an application arguing that the prosecution erred in law by pasting the court processes at the entrance of the house of the defendants a day before the court’s hearing as against three days stipulated by the law.

Attempt by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mrs. E.I. Alakija, calling for the defendants to be arraigned was not successful, as the court directed her to file a response to the defendants’ application.

After their submission, Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja subsequently adjourned till January 27, 2016 for argument on the application challenging the legality of the court processes.