The bodies of 74 South Africans, killed when a church guesthouse collapsed in Nigeria in September, arrived home today at Waterkloof Airbase in Pretoria, with South Africa looking to ease diplomatic tensions that flared after the disaster. Understandably, the South African government had all the rights to be irritated with Abuja. Just take a look at the following facts: • The building collapse at a church compound killed 116 people, 81 of whom were South Africans. Is this a coincidence? • Not all bodies have bee returned as the identification process is still continuing. • It has taken the Nigerian government more than two months to allow Minister Radebe and delegation to take back the deceased. • Pretoria accused Lagos of not doing enough to investigate the accident and said Nigerian authorities did not react quickly enough to rescue those trapped under the rubble. TB Joshua apparently refused to cooperate with the authorities in a court inquest set up to investigate the tragedy. To their credit, Nigerian officials attributed the cause of the accident to shoddy construction. Explain the Nigerian governments actions in respect of the TB Joshua mass killings of innocent people...
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:07:41 +0000
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