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•Dana employee shouted down at inquest
The Lagos Coroner conducting inquest into the June 3 Dana Air plane crash in Iju-Ishaga, a Lagos suburb yesterday re-scheduled the appearances of oil companies, television stations and other witnesses summoned to give evidence on the incidence.
According to the Lagos Coroner, Abule Egba division, Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, Television Continental (TVC), Channels and African Independent Television (AIT) are to appear tomorrow to show clips of the scenes of the crash.
The TV stations had appeared before the court yesterday with the tapes as earlier scheduled but failed to come with the equipment to play the tapes.
Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe adjourned the matter till tomorrow.
Mr. Oludare Falana, from Falana and Falana Chambers, at which instance the coroner is sitting, urged the court to order the television stations to bring their equipment needed to play back their recordings.
A counsel from the Ministry of Justice, Akinjide Bakare, cautioned against sacrificing diligence on the altar of speed.
Bakare said while it might be convenient to take evidence from some witnesses orally, it would be better for the television stations to circulate copies of their clips to all interested parties so as to enable them prepare questions.
His position had the backing of the counsel to Dana Air, Chief Bolaji Ayorinde(SAN), who said the world was monitoring the inquest. Ayorinde said the court should be seen to be doing what would help to avoid a recurrence of the incident.
He suggested that more copies of the video tapes be made and circulated to counsel.
Ayorinde urged the court to painstakingly go through the process and avoid any rush.
An employee of Dana Air, Gbenga Osikoya, said there was no need for the video clips.
Osikoya said the job of the coroner was simply to find out how the plane crashed, why it crashed, when and where it crashed.
His views drew the ire of other interested parties who all shouted him down.
Magistrates Komolafe directed the TV stations to make copies of the video tapes for counsel.
He said the video tapes would not be accepted as exhibits until they were shown in court for parties to see.
A witness, Mr. Adewale Adeniji, who claimed to be a cousin to the husband of one cabin official who died in the crash, Vivian Osinuga, told the coroner that the emergency agencies did not manage the crowd.
Adeniji said he was at the crash site because he thought there might be possibilities that his cousin’s wife might survive the crash.
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