BBC, Synagogue Church Tango Over TB Joshua
“Where were all those shameless interviewees in all the decades? Was it when the man passed on that they suddenly became awake or came back to their senses? Only a fool will have respect for such charlatans,”
The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) has labelled the BBC documentary cataloging events of atrocities allegedly committed by the founder of the church, the late Temitope Babatunde Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua, against some SCOAN devotees as “weird and strange.”
The BBC said it has uncovered evidence of widespread abuse and torture by the founder of the Synagogue Church, who died on June 5, 2021.
The British-state broadcaster alleged in a report that dozens of former members of the church claimed they were raped and forced to abort fetus by the late TB Joshua.
“The allegations of abuse in a secretive Lagos compound span almost 20 years,” the BBC report indicated.
But the church has rejected the accusations, noting that the characters interviewed in the report were unknown to it.
In a statement signed by its Public Affairs Director, Dare Adejumo, the church stated that the BBC’s report on its founder was done outside the ethics and fundamental principles of journalism.
SCOAN argued that journalism, as a societal watchdog, must be fair, balanced, and objective in order to command dignity, honour, and respect as the realm’s fourth estate.
“BBC has compromised these lofty principles by descending into fictional narratives and propaganda, thus turning itself into a weapon for a hatchet job as gangsters in the gab of journalism with a destructive ulterior motive for personal gains against a perceived enemy,” the church said.
“Only BBC can best explain why it deviated from true journalism and chose to be dishing junks and feeding the public with stones called bread by its offensive and disenchanted reports of disgruntled elements.
“This, to say the least, is insulting to our professional and public intelligence. One thing is very obvious, hundreds of BBC charades cannot rubbish the indelible footprints of TB Joshua’s legacies on earth again,” the statement noted.
According to the church, thousands of people have received incredible miracles and benefitted greatly from the Lord’s anointing and grace bestowed upon the late TB Joshua.
“Those beneficiaries are all over the place and cannot be disputed that are lining up and responding angrily to this imperialist broadcasting station.
“Many of them are in the UK, the home base of the BBC, but which its jaundiced investigative eyes cannot see but only the obviously suborned narrators!
“Myriads of broken homes reconciled by TB Joshua are also crying foul of BBC’s broadcast of iniquity. Uncountable hopeless children drawn from different parts of the world; some brought by their parents while some were picked from drug joints or brothels who have gotten their destinies restored are also pissed off by the offensive reports.
“BBC has obviously shot itself in the foot by its compromise and roadside journalism,” the statement said.
It claimed that the BBC would not have lost anything if its undercover journalists had gone to the church disguised as visitors to gain firsthand knowledge of what was going on, rather than depending on “disgruntled and manipulated individuals”, some of whom were previously unknown in SCOAN.
“Some of those identified there are relics of homosexual and lesbian associates. My findings further show that everything the BBC put together is strange to SCOAN,” the statement intimated.
“One other clearly illogical thing in the charade is the BBC categorical statement that the man of God was involved in all the abuse for over two decades!
“How can that be in a nation governed by law? It shows the station’s crude disrespect and bizarre perception of Nigeria.
“Where were all those shameless interviewees in all the decades? Was it when the man passed on that they suddenly became awake or came back to their senses? Only a fool will have respect for such charlatans,” the church said.
Source: Ernest Kofi Adu
