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About 30 South Africans are believed to be in hospital in Lagos. The government’s announcement that it will repatriate them will come as a relief to humanitarian workers who have battled to gain access to them in Lagos.
In a related development, the South African government debunked reports of a “diplomatic spat” allegedly caused by the way the tragedy was being handled by the Nigerian authorities.
According to some reports, President Goodluck Jonathan and his government had offended Pretoria by taking too long to express condolences to South Africa.
After a slow start, which it blamed partly on the lack of co-operation mainly from the SCOAN, the South African government has now mobilised a major effort to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy. Forensic experts, doctors to and welfare counsellors were sent to Lagos to help the injured and their families.
Meanwhile an audio file purporting to record TB Joshua, head of the SCOAN, bribing Nigerian journalists on how to report the story of the collapsed church has surfaced on the internet.
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