TB Joshua today failed to appear before the Lagos State coroner who his investigating the death of scores of person on September 12 at his church.
A furious Oyetade Komolafe said he would arrest him .
“So, TB Joshua is not in court, the (building) contractor is not in court. Any of the witnesses who is not in court today will be arrested,” the coroner said.
“I will issue a warrant of arrest for such a witness. I think the court has been lenient enough.”
Joshua, a popular evangelical preacher and televangelist known to his followers as “The Prophet” and “The Man of God”, had previously been told to the give evidence on November 5.
But his lawyer said that both he and the building contractors had not received the witness summons. There was no immediate explanation for his non-appearance on Thursday.
A total of 81 South Africans were among the dead. Seventy-four bodies were repatriated from Lagos last weekend.