An attempt at a spectacular takedown of Prophet TB Joshua

An attempt at a spectacular takedown of Prophet TB Joshua 

By E. Stanley Ukeni 

On September 12^th, 2014, a guesthouse within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN)—located at the Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos State, inexplicably crumbled to the ground. It has been estimated that a total of no less than one hundred and sixteen people lost their lives in the tragedy. At first the incident seemed like a horrendous freak accident, but then facts quickly began to emerge that pointed to possible foul play.

In the hours following the building collapse, eyewitness accounts, real-time CCTV footages and photo evidence began to emerge showing an unidentified military aircraft making several unusually low altitude flyovers of the skies above guesthouse building just before it came crumbling down—killing and injuring scores of people. The military plane was subsequently identified as a C-130 Hercules plane.

At the Sunday service on the fourteenth of September 2014, the vicar of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet TB Joshua, appeared before his congregation and narrated the sequence of events that led up to the appearance of the suspicious, low-flying, military aircraft over the church and the subsequent collapse of the SCOAN guesthouse.

Prophet TB Joshua related to his attentive congregants how, shortly after he left his mountain residence in the morning of September twelfth, 2014—about a ten minutes’ drive from the main church complex, to come to the church premises. He indicated that he had left his mountain residence at exactly 8AM in the morning, as he normally does after prayers at the mountain retreat.

The prophet described how he received a phone call from someone at his mountain residence, as soon as he arrived at the church complex. The caller explained that a military aircraft was flying very low over his mountain residence where he had just left some minutes previously. My guess is that the strange craft must have flown over the house at quite an unusually low altitude to alarm the caller enough to bring the incident to the attention of the prophet. Those in the aircraft were probably using hi-tech reconnaissance avionics to confirm if TB Joshua was at his residence before they lunch a kill strike at the location.

The prophet further disclosed how he was puzzled by the unusual incident, but informed the caller that he was at the church premises, and was about to go take a bath. He went on to state that he had indicated to the caller that after his morning bath he would implore the Lord for answers to why the craft was there. I would speculate here that the aircraft occupants probably intercepted the phone call and realized that the prophet was at a different location.

The prophet went on to relate that as soon as he was done with that call, he received another call. This time, it was from someone at the main church complex. The caller informed the Man of God that an aircraft was flying at an unusually low level over the church. He quickly realized that it must be the same aircraft that he was just informed about moments ago. He was told that the craft had flown over the church about four times—at an unusually low altitude.

The aircraft probably tracked the prophet’s phone signal to the church during the first call. And while he was on the second call they must have engaged onboard bandwidth tracking avionics in an effort to triangulate the exact location of his phone signal in a bid to narrow their target to a specific location for a decisive strike. He was probably still talking to the second caller, when the SCOAN guesthouse collapsed into a heap of rubbles. It took less than four seconds for the entire building to crumble to the ground.

It is clearly evident, from TB Joshua’s narrated sequence of events leading up to the collapse of the church guesthouse that the incident was a spectacular attempt to literarily ‘bring the house down on the head’ of TB Joshua. The enemies of his ministry, along with their cohorts, had initiated an elaborate plan to murder the prophet of God—but they failed.

Evidence of the mysterious military plane has craftily been downplayed by Nigerian government functionaries’. And presented to the international media agencies as ‘conspiracy theories’ by the government’s propaganda machinery desperate to cover-up the SCOAN guesthouse attack as a terrorist strike, and equally a failed attempt on the life of Prophet TB Joshua.  

However, I don’t think that they are done with their plan just yet. I feel that the lords of darkness have an alternative design up their sleeves. This equally insidious and diabolical plan is what I’m about to share with you. However, before I do, you need to have a background of how this plan has systematically unfolded thus far. 

Even as the search and rescue operation was going on at the scene of the ghastly incident, the Lagos State and federal government officials, in coordination with biased media functionaries, quickly set in motion a seemingly well-orchestrated propaganda machinery aimed at blaming the church for the incident even before facts on the incident have fully emerge. It was as if a pre-coordinated campaign of public ridicule, criticism and unmerited vilification was initiated against both the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) and its overseer, Prophet TB Joshua.

The initial salvo was fired by the then Lagos State governor. The former Gov. Fashola had gone on air to infer that Prophet TB Joshua and his associates had prevented the Lagos State emergency response team from conducting search and rescue operations. However, this was far from the truth. In fact, the governor and his lieutenants who sought after the media limelight by engaging themselves with news reporters who had arrived at the scene of the horrific accident, when they could have folded their sleeves and lent their effort to the rescue operation, and perhaps help save lives. 

The National Emergency Agency (NEMA) and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) had followed up with another false claim that SCOAN members had prevented them from saving lives during the rescue mission. It was not until SCOAN’s Chief Security Officer presented CCTV footage of the rescue effort at the Coroner’s Inquest that it became glaringly clear that neither NEMA nor LASEMA officials were in any way nor form prevented from conducting rescue operations.



Instead, the video footage showed that the federal and state emergency rescue responders arrived at the scene of the accident ill-equipped to conduct search and rescue operation. The footage showed that team of emergency responders initially went about taking pictures of the accident scene and conducting interviews at the accident scene, while victims were still trapped under the rubbles of the collapsed building.

It was in fact SCOAN, and not NEMA nor LASEMA, that engaged the services of professional rescue experts to help coordinate the search and rescue efforts. It was SCOAN and not NEMA nor LASEMA that hired heavy-duty equipment used in much of the search and rescue efforts. The Synagogue Church of All Nations equally provided the more than ten emergency ambulances that were used to transport victims of the tragedy to the hospitals and not NEMA nor LASEMA. 



In regards to the NEMA and LASEMA personal’s allegation that the church members expressed hostility towards them and was uncooperative with them during the rescue operation; I am of the opinion that the crowd of volunteer workers at the scene helping with the rescue effort—incensed by what they saw as a lack of concerted effort, and inaction, by the emergency responders, showed their irate by heckling the teams of emergency search and rescue to quite idling about and come help with the rescue effort—this is understandable considering the probable emotionally charged atmosphere and the frayed nerves.   

It became glaringly obvious that a deliberate state-sponsored campaign of calumny was being directed at Prophet TB Joshua and his church, when a few days after the terror attack on the SCOAN guesthouse, a false report was published by several international media organizations, which was attributed to the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LSBCA), Mrs. Abimbola Animashahun Odunayo. In the scathing report, the LSBCA head was quoted as declaring that her agency had sealed off the SCOAN guesthouse days before it collapsed and that the church had ignored the warnings from her agency to stop construction work on the guesthouse.



However, her declaration was a blatant falsehood because LSBCA had neither at any time prior to the building collapse issued the church a quit notice to stop construction work nor had it sealed the building. The fact is that available records merely indicates that LSBCA only sent contravention letters and notices days after the building had already collapsed. This was yet another deliberate attempt at misinformation aimed at tainting public opinion regarding the cause of the collapse.   

As both NEMA and LASEMA engaged in peddling their many misinformation and lies to both the local and international news outlets in an effort to turn public opinion against SCOAN and its founder, a new actor emerged on the scene with a tall-tale to tell. This time, a local journalist—of whom I would not give the dignity of mentioning his name, went on social media and accused Prophet TB Joshua of offering bribes to Journalist in a bid to hush them from reporting negative news stories about the church.

The journalist declared to the world that he possessed secretly recording footage that showed Prophet T.B Joshua offering journalists bribes of fifty thousand naira each to report favorably on the building collapse. His diabolical aim was to create the impression in the public consciousness that TB Joshua and the Synagogue Church of All Nations were attempting to engage in an apparent cover-up. This effort failed because when people saw and listened to the audio clip he uploaded to the internet, of which he alleged was proof of his claim, they realized that there was no substance to his unfounded allegation. It was yet another attempt at slandering Prophet TB Joshua’s integrity in the public.

Right about the same time, propaganda stories began to filter into both the local and international news agencies which suggested that the foundation of the collapsed guesthouse was designed and constructed for merely a two storey building structure. The misleading story maintained that the additional four storey addition to the initial two floors was done without any structural re-enforcement to the building’s existing foundation. In a further attempt to malign the Church and its founder, the peddlers of this theory inferred that this may have caused the building to buckle under the strain of structural stress.

However, a number of independent structural investigations that has been conducted by reputed and renowned local and international building experts—including those representing the families of the victims of the terror tragedy, on the site of the collapsed building showed that the foundation of the guesthouse had the structural integrity to support the weight of an eleven storey structure. This is yet again another attempt at misinformation that has been discredited by expert analysis of evidence.

These are merely a few instances of a long list of deliberate state-sponsored campaign of misinformation and vilification of Prophet TB Joshua. You can clearly see a pattern of sustained slander against the Synagogue Church of All Nations and its founder with the instances related above. This callous campaign of calumny is designed to achieve a hidden agenda. 

Then, just when it seemed like the campaign of lies was running out of steam, a new twist to the insidious plot to destroy the prophet of God. This time the duplicitous plotter engaged a legal maneuver to achieve their nefarious aim. The Lagos State government instituted a Coroner’s Inquest. At the face of it, this seemed like a benign procedural legal fact finding inquest to probe the circumstances leading to the collapse of the six storey guesthouse belonging to Synagogue Church of All Nations, however this move is anything but benign.

The way I see it, the Coroner’s Inquest smacks of a deviously clever ploy to ensnare TB Joshua in a legal trap—which if successfully executed, would prove devastatingly costly to the church. The plan, simply put, is designed to accomplish a primary objective that is necessary to achieve a broader objective that would, perhaps permanently, financially cripple the ministry of Synagogue Church of All Nations, if all goes as they planned. The inquisition was pretty much designed to arrive at a pre-decided conclusion.

However, to achieve its core aim, TB Joshua needed to appear before the court of inquiry. In pursuance of this, the coroner Judge, Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, summoned Prophet TB Joshua to appear before the court. I suspect, but of course cannot prove this assertion, that Magistrate Komolafe’s undeclared objective was to ask the prophet one question, under oath; “Did you, Prophet TB Joshua, have pre-knowledge of this incident?” His predictable answer would have established a prima facie evidence of ‘culpable negligence’, on the part of the prophet, in the eyes of the law.     

This is because corporeal institutions like the court of law, or the government for that matter, can only render verdict on temporal and quantifiable phenomena. As such, a legal argument like ‘acting on divine instruction’ in explaining why a foreknowledge of an impending disaster was not communicated to the victims ahead of time would be inadmissible in a court of law. I suspect that this is why TB Joshua declined the summons to appear before the court—even after the judge threatened to have him arrested. Perhaps, being a prophet he had pre-warning from heaven of the trap being set for him.

Now you may ask, “ok, so what?” Well, an admission of foreknowledge of the disaster would and concealing such information would clearly establish grounds for the institution of liability lawsuit by any one or group of the surviving victims of the terror attack or relatives of the deceased. The admission of foreknowledge may very well constitute an admission of guilt before a stacked jury hearing a punitive lawsuit.      

If a liability lawsuit where to be filed before a court of competent legal jurisdiction—with a history of awarding outrageously huge amounts of money in punitive damages, as is the case in the United States of America, a guilty verdict could conceivably cost the church tens of millions of dollars. This outcome would surely cripple the church’s ability to meet its financial obligations in regards to broadcasting the message of salvation to the world. Nothing would please the devil more than shutting down Emmanuel.tv broadcast network.

The enemies of SCOAN have set about to accomplish a deliberate objective. They want Prophet TB Joshua dead, and if they cannot kill him, then they intend to financially cripple his ability to reach out to the world with his mandate of ‘changing lives; changing nations; and changing the world’—and preventing the world from see a demonstration of God’s miraculous powers.   

As expected, the Coroner’s Inquest headed by Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, on July eighth, 2015 indicted the Synagogue Church of All Nations for ‘criminal negligence’. The judge promptly recommended that the church, owned by popular televangelist, TB Joshua, should be investigated and persecuted.

Magistrate Komolafe, in the judgment dismissed the suggestion of the church and its witnesses that the collapse of the SCOAN guesthouse was caused by the presence, or actions, of a mysterious military aircraft. She out rightly dismissed the testimony of explosives and weapons expert, Mr. Biedomo Paul Iguniwei, that the building may have collapsed due to a high energy infrasonic weapon fired from the aircraft that flew over the church moments before the building came crumbling down.



Ironically, Mr. Biedomo Paul Iguniwei’s research paper on his finding on the cause of the SCOAN guesthouse collapse, which Magistrate Komolafe was quick to dismiss, titled; ‘Elimination of the Structural Failure and the Placement of Chemical Explosives Options, for the Infrasonic Weapon Option as the Cause of the Synagogue (SCOAN) Building Collapse’ was accepted and published in a renowned and reputed scientific research journal, the International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research (IJSER) in its July 7^th 2015 edition. www.ijser.in/archives/v3i7/15071501.pdf   

Soon after the verdict of the Coroner’s Inquest was announced by the presiding judge, the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, expressed his satisfaction with the outcome of the inquisition. He promptly affirmed the state’s readiness to implement the recommendations of the court ruling, including filing criminal charges against the Synagogue Church of All Nations. Of course he would move to file phantom criminal charges against the church, after all he and his shadowy sponsors are pursuing a predesigned agenda. I’m sure you can already guess what the probable outcome such a kangaroo trial would be. My thinking is that ‘the fix is on’. 

Now that the possible motive behind the campaign against the prophet has been unveiled, the question becomes, ‘who is behind this elaborate diabolical plot to destroy the works of the prophet of God?’ The answer is that there exists an elite group of powerful cabal within the Nigerian government who, along with their even more powerful international partners, finds the prophets ability to see far into the future threatening to their shadowy designs.

This insidious oligarchy exists consider themselves above the laws of the land. They have little regards for the Nigerian constitution or the lives of the country’s citizens. In fact, they are the real strategic brains and financiers of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist network. Their antecedents and methods of maintaining their hold on the political and financial life-blood of Nigeria is reflected in the ruthless manner in which the Boko Haram terror group deals with those who opposes their wicked and degenerative ideology.



It was this oligarchs that, the then President Goodluck Jonathan, in January 8^th, 2012—during an inter-denominational service to mark the 2012 Armed Forces Remembrance Day, said that members of Boko Haram had infiltrated every level of government in Nigeria including the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches of government—planting its members in government agencies and security outfits. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/3360-boko-haram-has-infiltrated-my-government-says-jonathan.html  

They have vast amounts of money at their disposal with which to acquire or secure both conventional and exotic destructive weapons, for use against their perceived adversaries. I have it on good authority that the former president of Nigeria dreaded these men during his tenure in office—and was handicap in containing them because of their entrenched network within the government machinery of Nigeria. 

This well leveraged and internationally connected oligarchs—having double-crossed the former president, by secretly helping the current president of Nigeria to wrestle power from his predecessor, are still firmly entrench within the corridors of power in Nigeria—in fact more so now than during the previous administration. And they are hell-bent on using their now considerable influence in government to employ the instruments of statecraft in going after Prophet TB Joshua.   

All that I am willing to speculate on the international angle to this plot to besmirch the work of the prophet is that there are systems and entrenched powers that maintain their preeminence in global affairs by stealthily wielding the formidable instruments of statecraft at their whim. It is reasonable to assume that these sovereign entities would be threatened by anyone, whom they do not overtly or covertly control, that possesses an uncanny ability to accurately prophesy the future and readily declare it to the entire world in live-television broadcast. Remember the old adage, ‘what the powerful cannot coopt or control, they want to destroy’.

There may have been a marriage of convenience here between distinct transnational entities aiming for a singular objective—the destruction of Prophet TB Joshua. This is as far as I intend to go with the international angle. You may probably think that I am suddenly speaking in riddles here. Perhaps I am—for good reason I must add. These people have an extensive reach, and are resolute in harshly dealing with people that incur their wrath. I know this from firsthand experience. There is no need for me to further tempt fate. I may have already delved too far for comfort as it is.

May God continue to pour showers of bless upon His prophet T.B Joshua—and to protect him from the nefarious designs of his adversaries.  

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