sabotage in the building collapse at his Synagogue Church of All
Nations (SCOAN) in September. However, an expert in explosives and
weapons, Mr Biedomo Iguniwei, has laide credence to Joshua's claim as
he yesterday, told the coroner's inquest that the collapse was caused
by a high energy infrasonic weapon.
Iguniwei, a former research scientist in weapons production with the
Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, Kaduna, said he was
contracted by the church to carry out scientific analysis of the
materials from the scene, to ascertain the possibility of the collapse
being caused by deployment of infrasonic weapon.
He explained that an infrasonic weapon was a low sonic radiation used
as a weapon to cause structural damage and destruction to objects.
His conclusion, he said, was reached, after he interviewed two of the
survivors and also analysed the CCTV footage of the incident.
Iguniwei said that the "plane-like object" that flew over the church
fired an infrasonic weapon that made the building crumble.
"An infrasonic weapon can be fired or deployed from any flying object
or from a location within a distance of between one hundred metres and
1,000 metres away from the intended target.
"This infrasonic weapon employs vibration to induce high density
destructive resonance in the building leading to a near perfect
vertical crumbling experience.
"I bring to bear my experience in arriving at this conclusion that the
building collapsed as a result of uniform destruction due to the
infrasonic pulse fired unto the building," Iguniwei said.
To support his claim, the expert cited the destruction of the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge in Washington in 1940 as one of the cases where an
infrasonic weapon was deployed. He however explained that the
technology was not visible to human eyes. This, he said, was because
radiation does not generate heat or lead to burning as in the case of
bombs.
"The bomb expert who is looking for chemical residue will not see
anything like a by-product," he explained.
"Of course, there is no charring because all that the radiation does
is to cause a vibration of the atoms from their position resulting in
the emission of electrons.
"Engineers generally believe that a structure would fail due to bad
foundation and materials, but if you go there now, the foundation
pillars are still very intact.
"My position is that the building weakened from the top," the expert said.
Iguniwei's testimony therefore brought up a new twist to the
proceedings in the inquest into how the building where 116 persons
were killed on September 12, collapsed.
The Coroner, Oyetade Komolafe, directed Iguniwei to submit his
research on the incident to the court on January 5, 2015.
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